> >> make distcheck does two things, it rolls a distribution tarball, and then 
> >> checks it by unpacking it in a new directory, building it in another 
> >> directory 
> >
> > the build directory built by distcheck seems to be completely broken.
> > moreover i see we don't use such thing in 1.4, 1.5 recipes.
> > why we start use it now?
> 
> The fact that I did not do it is a fault on my part. Note that Lars
> always used to make distcheck work before any .0 version.

i looked into it. distcheck make empty source/_build directory and then
try to run 
../configure --src=.. && make  
from there. hahaha. i guess that make our sources able to compile from '../'
directory will take lot of time without any reasonable output. after all we
always do make && make install from complete tarball so i dont see any reason
why to bother about distcheck.

pavel

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