make dist considered harmful: odd gotcha with building elfutils rpms

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

> That is certainly a bug, dist targets shouldn't be conditional.

Thanks!

> [...]
> >   But I think the root cause is more the continued reliance
> > on "make dist", made necessary by the exclusion of generated autoconf*
> > materiel in the source tree.
> 
> I really don't think putting generated file into git is a good idea.
> You get all those issues that gcc, binutils and gdb have where you need
> all this extra CI just to make sure people use the "correct" tools to
> regenerate the files.

That need always seemed overstated.  The tools are "correct" if they
work (to configure/build elfutils on the platforms & configurations of
interest), even if they are not the freshest upstream or a particular
distro version.  If some developer manages to push in an
unsatisfactory version, any other developer (or a bot) can regen and
fix it.  It seems to me a non-problem.

- FChE