[bug-inetutils] Re: Hydra news

[Simon Josefsson]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

>    > Shouldn't the correct fix be that `make dist' depends on `make
>    > all' in automake?
>
>    Yes, but is there an elegant way to make that work?
>
> Wouldn't a patch like the following to automake do the job?

I don't think it is a general problem that warrants a change in
automake, but you could ask the automake people.  Alternatively, maybe
they could add a hook that is run before the 'dist' rule -- or is there
one already?

/Simon

> diff --git a/lib/am/distdir.am b/lib/am/distdir.am
> index 4e356b9..36462a9 100644
> --- a/lib/am/distdir.am
> +++ b/lib/am/distdir.am
> @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ if %?SUBDIRS%
>  AM_RECURSIVE_TARGETS += dist dist-all
>  endif %?SUBDIRS%
>  
> -dist dist-all:
> +dist dist-all: all
>       $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(DIST_TARGETS) am__post_remove_distdir='@:'
>       $(am__post_remove_distdir)
>