(null_AM_MAKEFLAGS): Define.

(my-distcheck): Use it to avoid distributing out of date files
whose derivation would require a maintainer tool.

diff --git a/Makefile.maint b/Makefile.maint
index 899f87143d0fe24e9309454b27c13075cd26f78a..e23e4726a3d021b9d01c07c53c6a7269f74efa34 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.maint
+++ b/Makefile.maint
@@ -38,6 +38,15 @@ cvs-dist: maintainer-check
        cvs tag -c $(this-cvs-tag)
        $(MAKE) dist
 
+# Use this to make sure we don't run these programs when building
+# from a virgin tgz file, below.
+null_AM_MAKEFLAGS = \
+  ACLOCAL=false \
+  AUTOCONF=false \
+  AUTOMAKE=false \
+  AUTOHEADER=false \
+  MAKEINFO=false
+
 t=./=test
 my-distcheck:
        -rm -rf $(t)
@@ -48,6 +57,7 @@ my-distcheck:
        cd $(t)/$(distdir) \
          && ./configure --disable-nls \
          && $(MAKE) CFLAGS='-Wformat -Werror' \
+             AM_MAKEFLAGS='$(null_AM_MAKEFLAGS)' \
          && $(MAKE) dvi \
          && $(MAKE) check \
          && rm -rf $(DEPDIR) \