Re: automake and $(EXEEXT)

> I wouldn't bother to test with old versions of Autoconf/Automake.  Only

make distcheck breaks with automake 1.6.3 (because make clean doesn't clean
doc/texi2html.ops the file generated with the @defindex op). Thus I think
we can require automake 1.7 in the configure.in.

> developers are expected to have those tools - everyone else can just run
> ./configure && make.  It's okay to require developers who want to edit
> the build sources to keep up to date as they usually have the skills.

Yes.

> Anyhow, if you decide to upgrade to something more recent than 1.7.9 &
> 2.58, please let me know so I can upgrade too.

I took the latest version available for fedora code 1, it is
automake-1.8.9
and
autoconf-2.59

With 1.7.8 and 2.57 make distcheck works. I guess it works for you too.
Thus I think we can close the issue about 'make distcheck' ?

Pat