purpose of EXTRA_DIST

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 08:13 -0500, Joel Sherrill  wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 14:35 -0700, Till Straumann wrote:
> > 
> >>What's the purpose of EXTRA_DIST, i.e.,
> >>what files are supposed to be listed ?
> > 
> > 
> > info automake
> > 
> > In a nutshell:
> > EXTRA_DIST is automake's make-variable to take all those files which are
> > not automatically added to a tarball during a "make dist".
> > 
> > ATM, "make dist" is non-functional in most parts of the RTEMS source
> > tree, so EXTRA_DIST isn't of much importance.
> 
> But we should be trying to make it useful -- not discourage people from 
> using it.  :)
More precisely: "make dist" mostly works for some parts of RTEMS (e.g.
cpukit), and won't ever work without major work in others.

Getting "make distcheck" working is one magnitude more difficult and
probably impossible.

Ralf