diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 263e0490..a5b9de78 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -591,4 +591,5 @@ coverage-clean:
 EXTRA_DIST += \
 	doc/meson.build \
 	subprojects/libgwater/xcb/meson.build \
+	meson_options.txt \
 	meson.build
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index a5d33374..5016c9db 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -439,5 +439,3 @@ if ohcount.found()
         ],
     )
 endif
-
-run_target('dist', command: [ 'script/dist.sh' ])
diff --git a/script/dist.sh b/script/dist.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 04f7dc3f..00000000
--- a/script/dist.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-
-NAME=`mesonintrospect ${MESON_BUILD_ROOT} --projectinfo | tr ',[' '\n\n' | sed -n 1,/subprojects/p | grep name | cut -d'"' -f4`
-VERSION=`mesonintrospect ${MESON_BUILD_ROOT} --projectinfo | tr ',[' '\n\n' | sed -n 1,/subprojects/p | grep version | cut -d'"' -f4`
-PREFIX=${NAME}-${VERSION}
-TAR=${MESON_BUILD_ROOT}/${PREFIX}.tar
-
-rm -f ${TAR} ${TAR}.xz
-git archive --prefix=${PREFIX}/ --format=tar HEAD > ${TAR}
-(
-    git submodule | \
-    while read commit path ref; do
-        (
-            cd ${path}
-            git archive --prefix=${PREFIX}/${path}/ --format=tar ${commit} > tmp.tar
-            tar -Af ${TAR} tmp.tar
-            rm -f tmp.tar
-        )
-    done
-)
-xz ${TAR}