Re: GNUMakefile: don't fail if there is no .tarball-version

[Eric Blake]

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According to Simon Josefsson on 6/3/2008 9:37 PM:
|>
|> That's the correct workaround - you are indeed creating the equivalent of
|> a tarball outside the VCS, so you should have a .tarball-version present.
|
| If that is the case, the gnumakefile module should have some
| documentation telling users to create that file.  How about this?

.tarball-version should only be present in a detached tree, and not in the
VCS tree.  There's already some documentation in build-aux/git-version-gen
that we should copy into this proposed documentation section.

| +
| +The @code{gnumakefile} creates a top-level GNUMakefile with rules that
| +are useful for maintainers.
| +
| +The module requires that you create a file @code{.tarball-version}.
| +If this isn't done, invoking a Automake 'dist' target will loop
| +infinitely.

The infinite loop is only possible if you are also using git-version-gen.
~ In other words, I'm not so sure that it is GNUmakefile's fault, so much
as not following the directions of git-version-gen.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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