distcheck-hook ¶If the distcheck-hook rule is defined in your top-level
Makefile.am, then it will be invoked by distcheck after
the new distribution has been unpacked, but before the unpacked copy
is configured and built. Your distcheck-hook can do almost
anything, though as always caution is advised. Generally this hook is
used to check for potential distribution errors not caught by the
standard mechanism.
distcheck-hook, as well as AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
and DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, are not honored in a subpackage
Makefile.am, but the flags from
AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS and
DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS are passed down to the
configure script of the subpackage.