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@@ -127,6 +127,22 @@ New in 1.14.2:
something like "... overrides Automake target '$(srcdir)/foo.am".
This bug is now fixed.
+ - Automake bug#18286: "make distcheck" could sometimes fail to detect
+ missing files in the distribution tarball, especially in those cases
+ where both the generated files and their dependencies are explicitly
+ in $(srcdir). An important example of this are *generated* makefile
+ fragments included at Automake time in Makefile.am; e.g.:
+
+ ...
+ $(srcdir)/fragment.am: $(srcdir)/data.txt $(srcdir)/preproc.sh
+ cd $(srcdir) && $(SHELL) preproc.sh <data.txt >fragment.am
+ include $(srcdir)/fragment.am
+ ...
+
+ If the use forgot to add data.txt and/or preproc.sh in the distribution
+ tarball, "make distcheck" would have erroneously succeeded! This issue
+ is now fixed.
+
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New in 1.14.1: