Github actions: add make distcheck job

Add a github action to build and verify the traditional distribution
source package with GNU Autotools, also known as `make distcheck`.

This helps catch errors propagating required file list changes.

Co-authored-by: Martijn van Beurden <mvanb1@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.github/workflows/distcheck.yml b/.github/workflows/distcheck.yml
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+name: Autotools distcheck
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  distcheck:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Install Linux dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y libtool-bin libogg-dev doxygen libxml2-utils w3c-sgml-lib
+
+      - name: Build with Autotools
+        run: |
+          ./autogen.sh
+          ./configure
+
+      - name: Build and check source package
+        run: make distcheck
+
+      - name: Upload logs on failure
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        if: failure()
+        with:
+          name: flac-${{ github.sha }}-${{ github.run_id }}-logs
+          path: ./**/*.log