Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Patches to avoid use of make recursion in the 'src/' subdir

[Jim Meyering]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
...
> Or ever better, what about this patch?
...
> Subject: [PATCH] maint: avoid yet another spurious "make distcheck" failure

Better indeed.  Thanks.
However, I prefer the one-line summary I used,
("yet another" gives no clue to what is actually involved)

    maint: fix build_programs definition not to use "make -C src ..."

> * dist-check.mk (built_programs): There's no need to issue recursive
> make calls in 'src/' to define this (in fact, that works no longer
> now that 'src/Makefile.am' is gone). Simply define this to the sorted
> contents of $(bin_PROGRAMS), with the 'src/' prefix and the $(EXEEXT)
> suffix (if any) removed.  Reported by Jim Meyering.
>
> Reported-by: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>

I'm making this additional change to your log message:

  - suffix (if any) removed.
  -
  - Reported-by: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
  + suffix (if any) removed.  Reported by Jim Meyering.

Please do not list email addresses in  "Reported by" log comments.
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