Original commit message from CVS:
explicitly added gstreamer-sections.txt to EXTRA_DIST
# The directory containing the source code (if it contains documentation).
DOC_SOURCE_DIR=$(top_srcdir)/gst
-EXTRA_DIST = gstreamer.types.in gstreamer.hierarchy $(DOC_MODULE)-sections.txt $(DOC_MAIN_SGML_FILE)
+# thomas
+# there's something wrong with gstreamer-sections.txt not being in the dist
+# maybe it doesn't resolve
+EXTRA_DIST = gstreamer.types.in gstreamer.hierarchy $(DOC_MODULE)-sections.txt $(DOC_MAIN_SGML_FILE) gstreamer-sections.txt
HTML_DIR=$(datadir)/gstreamer/html