You're right. I just noticed that the makedist.bat script excludes leim when builiding a src-archive. There is now a new src-package containing the leim files (and excluding elc-files).
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While trying to build with your source tarball, make process ends complaining about a missing Makefile.in in /Leim directory.
You're right. I just noticed that the makedist.bat script excludes leim when builiding a src-archive. There is now a new src-package containing the leim files (and excluding elc-files).