[Automake] PR: Optional subdirectories cause make distcheck to fail

[Richard Boulton <richard dot boulton at open dot muscat dot com>]

Hi,

I've just been trying to submit this as a PR at sources.redhat.com, but
I can't get that system to work (get a "Submitter-Id is 'unknown'" error).
So:

Synopsis: Optional subdirectories cause make distcheck to fail

Release: cvs automake (Aug 30 2000)

Environment:
  Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
  autoconf version 2.13

Description:
  If a project has optionally compiled subdirectories, and a make distcheck
  is performed on a copy of the project with those subdirectories turned
  off, then make distcheck will fail. This is due to make distcheck's check
  that make distclean removes all files: make distclean leaves the Makefile
  (and .deps/*.Plo, .deps/*.Po) files in the optionally turned off
  subdirectories.
  
File Attachments:
  automake_testcase.tgz

How-To-Repeat:
  tar zxvf automake_testcase.tgz;
  aclocal;automake --add-missing;autoconf;./configure;make distcheck
  
Fix:
  Either use $(DIST_SUBDIRS) instead of $(SUBDIRS) in the rule for make
  distclean (and make maintainerclean), or make make distcheck not mind
  leftover Makefiles and makefile parts.

-- 
Richard
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