Re: [PATCH] [GETTEXT] Automake 1.5's `distcheck' rule fails

[Bruno Haible]

Paolo Bonzini writes:
> Automake 1.5 has stricter rules for VPATH builds in its `make distcheck'
> rule than 1.4. In particular, it demands that in a VPATH build, the
> source directory can be on a readonly volume, as long as the source
> was not modified

That's indeed a reasonable requirement (compared to the earlier
requirement that even builds with $builddir = $srcdir don't need write
access to the srcdir).

A slightly modified version of your patch will be contained in gettext
0.11. Thanks!

Bruno