Makes things lighter at the expense of requiring the user
to be up-to-date for autotools.
patch by Jan Engelhardt (jengelh at medozas dot de)
Change-Id: Icfcab2d899828a213d9fade0dab350dacd0c070a
use top_srcdir rather than top_builddir for AM_CPPFLAGS
add EXTRA_DIST to man Makefile. fixes distcheck target.
Change-Id: I308dc1c98f096de1efe188f63d040ef953598e78