>> "make dist" includes all generated code in >> the release tarball so that users don't need the yacc or lex tools to build >> Thrift. thrift[ly].* are generated by yacc and lex. > > Did you have to teach make dist to do that or does the > standard autotool chain do this for you? Automake does it automatically for lex and yacc. For other tools (like thrift ;-) ), I think it will do it automatically if the generated source is listed as a source file for some target. I don't think you necessarily have to include them in BUILT_SOURCES.
--David
