Re: make dist depending on binaries which use gnulib

[Jim Meyering]

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.
However, ...

> 2. If so, then I have a further problem: if I simply make the file in
> question explicitly depend on zile$(EXEEXT), then zile is compiled by
> make dist, but cannot be linked because it needs ../lib/libgnu.a. How
> do I correctly make "make dist" build this?

I made some changes to accommodate that in cppi recently:

    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cppi.git/commit/?id=49d4baaf363bc31b2a3
    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cppi.git/commit/?id=8a32cf9196e06b74e17

The latter was required only because I use help2man
to generate man pages from --help.