Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Now, even when you stick "$(srcdir)/" in front of the prerequisites, > still VPATH searching applies. Since source tree of the distcheck > source (that below /tmp/rpmbuildupdate-0.7/rpmbuildupdate-0.7) does > not contain the *.in files, but VPATH contains "..", the `make' executed > inside the directory /tmp/rpmbuildupdate-0.7/_build finds the file > ../../rpmbuildupdate.in.in > > and happily uses them; that is: the second "../" is your "$(srcdir)/", > and the first "../" is the result from make's VPATH search. > > Was this understandable? Yes, thanks for those explanations.
Would not distcheck target be more foolproof then if it used a random writable temporary directory rather than a local one ? I have no clue however about the portability of mktemp(1), but this is supposed to take place on maintainer's host anyway. -- Guillaume Rousse Projet Estime, INRIA Domaine de Voluceau Rocquencourt - B.P. 105 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex - France
