severity 14845 minor
tags 14845 wontfix
close 14845
stop
Hi Mohan, thanks for the report, and sorry for the delay.
Unfortunately, I have decided that the bug you are reporting
is actually a desired behaviour (see below for a rationale),
so I'm not going to change it, and I'm closing this report a
As per the documentation dist-hook is supposed to execute before the tar/gzip,
but there are few other commands
that execute after dist-hook that effectively nullifies the effect of dist-hook
automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.63
dist
