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+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2010-2012 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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Check that distributed broken symlinks cause 'make dist' to fail, and
+# to do so with (mostly) meaningful diagnostic.
+
+. ./defs || Exit 1
+
+# We need, for our broken symlinks, names that make it hard to get false
+# positives when grepping make output to look for them.
+lnk_base=BrknSymlnk
+lnk1=${lnk_base}__001
+lnk2=${lnk_base}__002
+lnka=${lnk_base}__aaa
+lnkb=${lnk_base}__bbb
+
+ln -s nonesuch $lnk1 || skip_ "cannot create broken symlinks"
+
+ln -s "`pwd`/nonesuch" $lnk2
+
+ln -s $lnk1 $lnka
+ln -s $lnka $lnkb
+
+# Sanity checks.  Use 'test -r', since Solaris Sh doesn't grok 'test -e'.
+test ! -r $lnk1
+test ! -r $lnk2
+test ! -r $lnka
+test ! -r $lnkb
+test -h $lnk1
+test -h $lnk2
+test -h $lnka
+test -h $lnkb
+
+cat >> configure.ac <<'END'
+AC_OUTPUT
+END
+
+$ACLOCAL
+$AUTOCONF
+
+ls -l # For debugging.
+
+# Don't try to use "make -k", because some botched make implementations
+# (HP-UX, IRIX) might still exit on the first error in this situations.
+for lnk in $lnk1 $lnk2 $lnka $lnkb; do
+  echo "EXTRA_DIST = $lnk" > Makefile.am
+  $AUTOMAKE
+  ./configure
+  # Distribution must fail, with a decent error message.
+  $MAKE distdir >out 2>&1 && { cat out; Exit 1; }
+  cat out
+  $FGREP $lnk out
+done
+
+: