In trying to prepare the release of (gasp) GNU Hello, I'm finding that some gnulib files are being left out of the distribution tar.gz, specifically the getopt-related ones. It looks like this is because the gnulib Makefile.am just has:
libgnu_a_SOURCES = libgnu_a_LIBADD = @LIBOBJS@ noinst_HEADERS = pkgdata_DATA = EXTRA_DIST = And the system getopt on the machine where I'm working already suffices, so it's not included in LIBOBJS. But obviously (?) it should be included in the distribution. This can't be a new problem, but I didn't find anything about it in the mail archives. I looked at some of the other gnulib-using sources (thanks to users.txt) but didn't see a solution there, either. What do others do? BTW, the actual error comes from xgettext at make distcheck: /usr/local/gnu/bin/xgettext: error while opening "gnulib/lib/getopt.c" for reading: No such file or directory since I included gnulib/lib/getopt.c in POTFILES.in, since it has strings ... however, regardless of that, surely the getopt files need to be included or the package wouldn't build on any system lacking GNU getopt. Thanks, Karl
