automake complains that NEWS, AUTHOR and ChangeLog are missing. prepare_release.sh creates NEWS.md and AUTHOR.md, which could be trivially renamed. Alternatively, --foreign can be passed to automake in bootstrap which just ignores these files (see here).
automake
complains that NEWS, AUTHOR and ChangeLog are missing.prepare_release.sh
creates NEWS.md and AUTHOR.md, which could be trivially renamed. Alternatively,--foreign
can be passed toautomake
inbootstrap
which just ignores these files (see here).