From ba6bc90a4852272549e770b1d7d8ed19a0745f37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keith Marshall <keith@users.osdn.me>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 21:17:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare empty dist directory when required.

---
 ChangeLog   | 7 +++++++
 Makefile.in | 4 +---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8354c73..9b636e6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2020-05-28  Keith Marshall  <keith@users.osdn.me>
+
+	Prepare empty dist directory when required.
+
+	* Makefile.in (dist-prepare): Delete goal; move its commands...
+	(dist): ...to here; remove dependency on defective "dist-prepare".
+
 2020-05-27  Keith Marshall  <keith@users.osdn.me>
 
 	Fix libmingwex-n.dll dependencies; cf. Issue #40438.
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 7695d61..8af42ca 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -105,10 +105,8 @@ check-recursive: %: %-subdirs
 MKDIR_P = @MKDIR_P@
 LN = @LN@
 
-dist-prepare:
+dist: dist-subdirs dist-extra
 	$(RM) -r $@; $(MKDIR_P) $@
-
-dist: dist-prepare dist-subdirs dist-extra
 	for file in $(addsuffix /$@/*,${subdirs}); do \
 	  test -f $$file && $(LN) $$file $@; done
 
-- 
2.11.0