Re: [PATCH] make-dist fixes and clean-ups

[Jérôme Marant]

Quoting Thien-Thi Nguyen

> for packaging work, it helps to know the Makefile internals.  if
> the Makefile is confusing in some way, feel free to ask about it.

The only information you should know about with makefiles are
targets and variables.

> > I think it would be cleaner to include lisp/ldefs-boot.el in the
> > tarball but not to include it in installed lisp files.
>
> it is redundant w/ loaddefs.el, thus a likely source of confusion
> for end users.  the cp suggestion sounds reasonable to me.

It'd better be redundant if it does not hurt.

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Jérôme Marant