Re: make dist fixes

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Jones <address@hidden> writes:

>> I just checked in a set of fixes to help get make dist to work.  I've
>> run into a problem with the generated Makefiles that comes from one of
>> the auto* tools.  

Brian> Dove into automake and configure tonight and solved this little
Brian> mystery.  Essentially the check for what to put in
Brian> @am__include@ is only done as part of something previously
Brian> included only when using --enable-jni because of one of the
Brian> checks for a compiler or something.  I've moved the 'if'
Brian> statement down a bit in configure.in to fix this.

Thanks for looking at this.
We're aware of the problem.  Every conditional you use must always be
declared -- running AM_CONDITIONAL in an `if' or something in
configure will (could) generate output that confuses make.

In the CVS automake we've added code to check for this at configure
time.  We can't do a perfect job, since autoconf doesn't really know
about shell flow-control, but we can detect the error when it occurs
and report it to the user.

Tom