-EXTRA_DIST = bison.1 bison.s1 bison.hairy REFERENCES configure.bat \
- build.com bison.cld bison.rnh vmshlp.mar OChangeLog
+# See comments in build-aux/git-version-gen. However, we make .version depend
+# on configure so that .version and VERSION/PACKAGE_VERSION stay in sync in the
+# working copy (for example, when you run autoreconf && make). Allowing these
+# to fall out of sync appears to have little potential to improve Bison build
+# efficiency (even if we were to replace VERSION/PACKAGE_VERSION with .version
+# everywhere possible). On the other hand, it could be harmful. For example,
+# a developer might naively reference .version in a test case while the bison
+# executable still compiles with VERSION, and so the test case might fail or
+# pass incorrectly.
+BUILT_SOURCES = $(top_srcdir)/.version
+$(top_srcdir)/.version: configure
+ $(AM_V_GEN)echo $(VERSION) > $@-t && mv $@-t $@
+dist-hook: gen-ChangeLog
+ $(AM_V_GEN)echo $(VERSION) > $(distdir)/.tarball-version