diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9c434adb7c6184cfe12a5c459b0d44fdec427849..350d7a7f065776c29c0954998cb233a9376ec5dc 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ build
 src/kpp
 boxmox*.tar.gz
 
+# bc we create this automatically using build_dist.sh
+Makefile.am
+
 doc/boxmox_README.pdf
 
 **.DS_Store
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 3920427cab679024c0d17d42a423a46d3214ace1..d9b773d65da73412e71949085279aa36ad063c26 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ build:
     - DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -qq install wget patch make gcc gfortran flex bison texlive autoconf autotools-dev
     - "[ -f ./version ] && export VERSION=$(cat ./version)"
   script:
-    - . build_dist.bash "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/build"
+    - . build_dist.sh "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/build"
   artifacts:
     name: boxmox-dist-$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA
     paths:
diff --git a/build_dist.bash b/build_dist.sh
similarity index 99%
rename from build_dist.bash
rename to build_dist.sh
index a66918d3995c30db84f16ec123b8650d7f45808e..546d39fc8fc4b723140c259daa793decb8cd47ea 100755
--- a/build_dist.bash
+++ b/build_dist.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ set -x
 cp Makefile.am_BLUEPRINT Makefile.am
 
 # list all files in these subdirectories
-distFiles=$(find drv examples case_studies int models util -type file)
+distFiles=$(find drv examples case_studies int models util -type f)
 
 #pretty print them                                        45 char wide    dd tab, backslash at end    remove backslash last line  remove tab first line
 printf 'nobase_dist_pkgdata_DATA = %s\n' "${distFiles[*]}" | fmt -w 45 | sed -e 's/\(.*\)$/\t\1 \\/g' | sed '$ s/\\//g' | sed '1 s/\t//g' >> Makefile.am