Re: "cvsu --list" during distcheck

[Jim Meyering]

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> m4/gettext.m4:          cat "$ac_given_srcdir/$ac_dir/POTFILES.in" | sed -e 
> "/^#/d" -e "/^[     ]*\$/d" -e "s,.*,     $top_srcdir/& \\\\," | sed -e 
> "\$s/\(.*\) \\\\/\1/" > "$ac_dir/POTFILES"
> m4/progtest.m4:  IFS="${IFS=    }"; ac_save_ifs="$IFS"; IFS="${IFS}:"
> Makefile.maint: found SPACE-TAB sequence; remove the SPACE
> make[2]: *** [sc_space_tab] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/adl/projs/cvs/coreutils'
> make[1]: *** [distcheck-hook] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/adl/projs/cvs/coreutils'
> make: *** [distcheck] Error 2
>
> I've thus commented the sc_space_tab check from Makefile.maint,
> and distcheck succeeded.

Thanks for reporting that!
(and sorry about my delay in replying)

You could also add m4/progtest.m4 and m4/gettext.m4 to
the `exclude' file, .x-sc_space_tab.

>  Jim> If there is a publicly maintained tool that does the same
>  Jim> job, I'll be happy to switch.
>
> Maybe you could simply contribute yours to cvs-utils.

Do you mean this project?
  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/cvs-utils/
It seems to be inactive.
All I see is spam in the last four months of mailing list traffic.