hello everyone,
Thanks for the quick progress here, and the kind words. A few notes:
- I used the word "pure" in the sense of a pure function, without side
effects. I had started with a very long flag name but when you have a few
different flags in your AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro this quickly
Since v1.15.1-204-gac47c22e3, "make dist" has been depending on
$(BUILT_SOURCES) to avoid problems when building some GNU packages which
need to compile themselves as part of building their tarballs (for
example, to generate manpage content from --help output). This default
behaviour might be
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From: Allison Karlitskaya
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 14:37:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dist: add new "pure-dist" automake option
Since v1.15.1-204-gac47c22e3, "make dist" has been depending on
$(BUILT_SOURCES) to avoid problems wh
ket depend on $(BUILT_SOURCES) for all automake-using projects
seems to be much too large of a hammer to solve that specific problem.
Thanks very much,
Allison Karlitskaya
