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+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2012-2014 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/>.
+
+# If we distribute a file whose name that starts with $(srcdir),
+# then the distribution rules should not try to instead distribute
+# a file with the same name from the builddir.
+# Currently, this doesn't work (the reasons and details for this
+# limitation should be explained in depth in comments in file
+# 'lib/am/distdir.am').
+
+. test-init.sh
+
+echo AC_OUTPUT >> configure.ac
+
+cat > Makefile.am <<'END'
+EXTRA_DIST = $(srcdir)/filename-that-is-easy-to-grep
+END
+
+$ACLOCAL
+$AUTOCONF
+$AUTOMAKE -a
+
+mkdir build
+cd build
+../configure
+
+echo bad > filename-that-is-easy-to-grep
+run_make -e FAIL -E distdir
+grep 'filename-that-is-easy-to-grep' stderr
+
+echo good > ../filename-that-is-easy-to-grep
+$MAKE distdir
+test "$(cat $distdir/filename-that-is-easy-to-grep)" = good
+
+: