Comment 5 for bug 1457651

To try to clarify what I'm asking in the first paragraph above:

In the Moonshot UI source tree (as is standard with autotools), it's necessary to run ./configure in order to generate the Makefile. So the only way I can understand what you (Sam) wrote above is if you're referring to configure and/or make dist commands that are run in another directory -- call it a master directory -- but which ultimately build the Moonshot UI via a recursive make.

If that is what you meant, could you please give me some pointers about how that master directory is built, and how it builds the Moonshot UI?

If that's not what you meant, then in what sense is "make dist" run before "configure" ?