[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Luis EG Ontanon wrote:

> But I do not understand what's exactly wrong with that script, and
> how, in your view, it should be working.

It needs to be able to take a list of file names (rather than full path 
names), and find those files in $(srcdir) (which could be passed as the 
first argument to the script), so that the list of files can be put in a 
Makefile.common - and so that "make distcheck" will work, at least on my 
machine (I'm not sure *why* it's not working, but removing the 
$(srcdir)/ from the file names clears that up).

That's the way the other make-* scripts work.