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+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2010-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Check that distributed symlinks in the source tree will be expanded
+# as regular files in $(distdir).
+
+. test-init.sh
+
+echo text > file
+
+ln -s file lnk || skip_ "cannot create symlinks to files"
+
+mkdir A
+mkdir B
+echo aaa > A/aaa
+cd B
+ln -s ../A/aaa bbb
+cd ..
+
+echo FooBarBaz > foo
+
+ln -s foo  bar1
+ln -s bar1 bar2
+ln -s bar2 bar3
+
+ln -s "$(pwd)/foo" quux
+
+cat >> configure.ac << 'END'
+AC_OUTPUT
+END
+
+echo "me = $me" > Makefile.am # For better failure messages.
+cat >> Makefile.am << 'END'
+EXTRA_DIST = lnk B/bbb bar1 bar2 bar3 quux
+.PHONY: test
+test: distdir
+	ls -l $(distdir) $(distdir)/B
+	fail() { echo "$(me): $$*" >&2; e=1; }; \
+	e=0; \
+	set file lnk A/aaa B/bbb foo quux foo bar1 foo bar2 foo bar3; \
+	while test $$# -ge 2; do \
+	  file=$$1; shift; link=$(distdir)/$$1; shift; \
+	  test -f $$link || fail "$$link is not a regular file"; \
+	  test ! -h $$link || fail "$$link is a symlink"; \
+	  diff $$file $$link || fail "$$link differs from $$file"; \
+	done; \
+	exit $$e;
+END
+
+ls -l . A B
+
+$ACLOCAL
+$AUTOCONF
+$AUTOMAKE
+
+./configure
+$MAKE test
+
+: