Re: build failure with 'make distcheck' without 'make' first

[Assaf Gordon]

> On Dec 11, 2016, at 13:09, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
>> [...] the following fails to build:
>> 
>>    $ make distclean ; ./configure ; make distcheck
> I've fixed it with the attached:
> <sed-make-dist-vs-missing-dep.diff>

Great!

I was going about it the wrong way... I saw the coreutil's "lib/local.mk" has 
this additional dependency:

    #Allow "make distdir" to succeed before "make all" has run.
    dist-hook: $(noinst_LIBRARIES)
    .PHONY: dist-hook

But adding it to sed was not working.

Thanks!
  - assaf