Re: `make dist' with srcdir != builddir

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

Tom> I think what we want is for the positioning of the .c file not to
Tom> matter for the developer, but for the file to end up in the
Tom> distribution made by `make dist'.

adl> The following is how I intended to fix this.  I'm not sure
adl> it's what you want.  Anyway the patch below won't apply since
adl> it predates Akim's sourcequake; I have yet to figure where the
adl> relevent passage has been moved :)

It is in distdir.am.

adl> 	* automake.in (handle_dist_worker): When building the distdir,
adl> 	copy files from the build directory in preference to the source
adl> 	directory; that way the distribution is always built from the
adl> 	latest version of generated files.

I'm leery of changing orderings like this.

I don't understand how the file can end up in both the source and
build trees.  That is the mystery.  I want to understand it before
implementing a change.

Tom