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+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Check that automake really automatically distributes all the files
+# it advertises to do, even when in subdirectories.
+#
+# This behavior might be suboptimal, but it has been in place for quite
+# a long time, and it would be risky to change it now.  See also the
+# discussion of automake bug#7819:
+#  <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7819>
+#
+# Keep this test in sync with sister test 'autodist.test'.
+
+. ./defs || Exit 1
+
+cat >> configure.ac <<'END'
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([sub/Makefile])
+AC_OUTPUT
+END
+
+$ACLOCAL
+$AUTOCONF
+
+# The automake manual states that the list of automatically-distributed
+# files should be given by 'automake --help'.
+list=`$AUTOMAKE --help \
+        | sed -n '/^Files.*automatically distributed.*if found.*always/,/^ *$/p' \
+        | sed 1d`
+# Normalize whitespace, just in case.
+list=`echo $list`
+
+test -n "$list"
+
+cat > Makefile.am <<'END'
+SUBDIRS = sub
+check-local:
+## For debugging.
+	@echo DIST_COMMON:
+	@for f in $(DIST_COMMON); do echo "  $$f"; done
+	@echo DISTDIR:
+	@ls -l $(distdir) | sed 's/^/  /'
+## Now the checks.
+	@for f in $(autodist_list); do \
+	  echo "file: sub/$$f"; \
+	  test -f $(distdir)/sub/$$f \
+	    || { echo $$f: distdir fail >&2; exit 1; }; \
+	done
+END
+
+mkdir sub
+
+cat > sub/Makefile.am <<'END'
+include distfiles.am
+check-local:
+## For debugging.
+	@echo DIST_COMMON:
+	@for f in $(DIST_COMMON); do echo "  $$f"; done
+	@echo DISTDIR:
+	@ls -l $(distdir) | sed 's/^/  /'
+## Now the checks.
+	@for f in $(autodist_list); do \
+	  echo "file: $$f"; \
+## Some filenames might contain dots, but this won't cause spurious
+## failures, and "spurious successes" are so unlikely that they're
+## not worth worrying about.
+	  echo ' ' $(DIST_COMMON) ' ' | grep "[ /]$$f " >/dev/null \
+	    || { echo $$f: distcom fail >&2; exit 1; }; \
+	done
+END
+
+: First try listing the automatically-distributed files in proper
+: targets in Makefile.am
+
+echo "MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = $list" > sub/distfiles.am
+for f in $list; do echo "$f :; touch $f"; done >> sub/distfiles.am
+
+cat sub/distfiles.am # For debugging.
+
+$AUTOMAKE -a
+
+./configure
+
+$MAKE distdir
+autodist_list="$list" $MAKE check
+
+$MAKE maintainer-clean
+test ! -f sub/README    # Sanity check.
+rm -rf $me-1.0          # Remove $(distdir).
+
+: Now try creating the automatically-distributed files before
+: running automake.
+
+: > sub/distfiles.am
+for f in $list; do
+  echo dummy > sub/$f
+done
+
+ls -l # For debugging.
+
+$AUTOMAKE
+
+./configure
+
+$MAKE distdir
+autodist_list="$list" $MAKE check
+
+: