On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:57:28PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Patrick Welche wrote on Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:52:26PM CET: > > > > I thought that running make distcheck in the source directory should > > fail? > > Not sure why you think that. distcheck does a build with build tree != > source tree. But nothing in Automake prohibits packages from allowing > both trees to coincide.
Sorry, I mean, the package was broken. If I did a real build in build tree != source tree, it failed because of the ../../config.h brokeness. I just wondered why when make distcheck did its build in _build, that it didn't fail. > Not sure if "srcdir" is a directory name here, but config.h should not > be created in the source tree, but in the build tree, to facilitate > having several distinct build trees (for several systems, for example). srcdir is a directory name here. In a make distcheck, isn't the package first built in srcdir, and then in _build? So there might be a config.h from the build in srcdir? Cheers, Patrick _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
