Hi Ralf, On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:04:20PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * David Everly wrote on Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:52:12PM CET: > > On 11/9/06, Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >well, I created configure.ac and Makefile.am: > [...] > > This is almost identical to what I tried. > > Thanks for the example. So this is the same issue as discussed in this > thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2006-09/msg00014.html
indeed, very interesting read. So it seems that distcheck would catch more bugs if `_build' were not a subdirectory of the expanded tarball tree. Currently we have $(distdir), $(distdir)/_build, $(distdir)/_inst. What about having _dist/$(distdir), _build, and _inst all in the top level directory? Or all under _check? > > >and the distcheck failed with the expected message: > > > > > >make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../test.txt', needed by `all-am'. > > >Stop. ... > > >Then I run: > > > > > >autoreconf -i > > >./configure > > >make distcheck > > But I think you used > ../configure No. _I_ called ./configure. It was `make distcheck' who called ../configure, which then led to the above message. Stepan
