Re: GNU packs with generated README

[Eric Siegerman <erics at telepres dot com>]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:37:57PM +0200, Ronald Landheer wrote:
> What I'd like to know is whether it is possible to keep the GNU (--gnu) 
> standards for Automake's checking, but not have it look at README while 
> bootstrapping [because README is a generated file, and doesn't exist
> yet at that point]

As a longer-term solution, perhaps some of those checks should be
done, not by Automake itself, but by the generated distcheck
target; specifically, checks for files like README that aren't
needed by the build.

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