FYI: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR and dist

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

I'm checking this in on HEAD and branch-1-7.

2003-07-04  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <address@hidden>

        * automake.texi (Optional, Dist): AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR files
        are automatically distributed.

Index: automake.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/automake.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.342
diff -u -r1.342 automake.texi
--- automake.texi       27 Jun 2003 11:47:26 -0000      1.342
+++ automake.texi       4 Jul 2003 22:00:54 -0000
@@ -1165,6 +1165,9 @@
 one of the helper scripts.  @xref{Input, , Finding `configure' Input,
 autoconf, The Autoconf Manual}.
 
+Required files from @code{AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR} are automatically
+distributed, even if there is no @file{Makefile.am} in this directory.
+
 @item AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 Automake will ensure that @file{config.guess} and @file{config.sub}
 exist.  Also, the @file{Makefile} variables @samp{host_alias} and
@@ -4542,8 +4545,10 @@
 (i.e. the source files corresponding to the files specified in various
 Autoconf macros such as @code{AC_CONFIG_FILES} and siblings) are
 automatically distributed.  Files included in @file{Makefile.am}s (using
address@hidden) or in @file{configure.in} (using @code{m4_include}) are
-also distributed.
address@hidden) or in @file{configure.in} (using @code{m4_include}), and
+helper scripts installed with @samp{automake --add-missing} are also
+distributed.
+
 @cvindex m4_include, distribution
 
 Still, sometimes there are files which must be distributed, but which
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz