Pursuant to http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13324 ...
I suggest something like the following small change to the manual,
mentioning dist-hook instead of just unconditionally saying "don't use
directories in EXTRA_DIST". Even though dist-hook is described the next
section, I for one read this text and never thought of going further :(.
2013-01-03 Karl Berry <k...@gnu.org>
* automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): mention dist-hook
as working around the problems of whole directories in EXTRA_DIST.
--- /tmp/ORIG/automake.texi 2013-01-03 00:25:08.000000000 -0800
+++ /tmp/automake.texi 2013-01-03 10:39:45.000000000 -0800
@@ -8361,3 +8361,5 @@
including, e.g., Subversion's @file{.svn} private directories or CVS/RCS
-version control files. We recommend against using this feature.
+version control files; thus we recommend against using this feature
+as-is. However, you can use the @code{dist-hook} feature to ameliorate the
+problem; see the next section.
Diff finished at Thu Jan 3 10:39:46
