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+build +----- + * Fix "make dist" to build documentation. + * Fix "make distcheck" at the same time.
How were you planning to fix "make distcheck"? I had a look at it after reading up on autotools, and the main problem was our unconventional test suite. "make distcheck" requires that the tests write only to a separate build directory. The source directory is marked read-only, including tests/. But our "make check" tries to write to tests/tmp, tests/data, (and now tests/build).
Rather than piling on the hacks, I think it's time we admitted that the testsuite just doesn't fit "make check" :-). "make check" is supposed to test the normal program, not a special testing version.
HACKING should then explicitly mention "tests/runtests", as the way to run the testsuite.
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