Here is a small patch to simplify m4/Makefile.am.in. This came out

of a suggestion I made to Jim Meyering (maintainer of GNU fileutils,
where I snarfed the code from :).  (From: Lars Hecking
<lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie>)

diff --git a/m4/Makefile.am.in b/m4/Makefile.am.in
index aa68ff973666c01f6ef583ccf33ec9bcf57f4a72..49a8a57c3e7d9d3d1a58d6c34004eaefa4a6788a 100644 (file)
--- a/m4/Makefile.am.in
+++ b/m4/Makefile.am.in
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 Makefile.am: Makefile.am.in
        rm -f $@ $@t
        sed -n '1,/^##m4-files-begin/p' $< > $@t
-       ( echo EXTRA_DIST = README Makefile.am.in; \
-         find . -type f -name '*.m4' -print |sed 's,^\./,,' |sort ) \
+       echo EXTRA_DIST = README Makefile.am.in *.m4 \
            |fmt | (tr '\012' @; echo) \
            |sed 's/@$$/%/;s/@/ \\@/g' |tr @% '\012\012' \
          >> $@t

diff --git a/m4/README b/m4/README
index df032df92e5452a8fa2abf5bbe60f9cce2ba302f..5e9b3a898c664b3005556e09c1d3f0824042fcf0 100644 (file)
--- a/m4/README
+++ b/m4/README
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ used by autoconf to create the configure script at the the top level in
 this distribution.
 
 The Makefile.am file in this directory is automatically generated
-from the template file, Makefile.am.in.  The generation will fail
-if you don't have all the right tools.
+from the template file, Makefile.am.in.
+