Re: automake's .el support vs. recent loss of byte-compile-dest-file

[Jim Meyering]

On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 3:57 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 13:37:04 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>> > My intention, unless I hear objections, is to resurrect the removed
>> > feature on the emacs-26 branch, but add an annoying warning there, so
>> > that any packages and maintainers who didn't notice the deprecation
>> > will do so sooner rather than later.  But the feature will remain
>> > removed on the master branch, which will eventually become Emacs 27.
>>
>> I see Glenn already did that (thanks!).
>
> Jim, can you double-check that the original Automake's "make
> distcheck" works with the current emacs-26 branch?  TIA.

Hi Eli,

I built emacs-26, made it first in my path, then confirmed that
Makefiles generated by stock fedora-27 automake
(automake-1.15.1-2.fc27) work with "make distcheck" on an
.el-distributing package (idutils).