On 29 March 2010 19:56, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > Reuben Thomas wrote: >> 1. Is it expected that "make dist" should work without a preceding >> "make"? i.e. is this really a bug? > > Not technically, as Eric already explained.
Yes, thanks Eric! (And yes, I had my SUBDIRS correctly ordered,) > The latter was required only because I use help2man > to generate man pages from --help. Me too, so I suspect your solution is exactly what I would need. Only, I'm happy to be GCS-compliant and require make before make dist for now. Thanks both of you. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org