Hello Dave, * deckrider wrote on Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:54:16PM CEST: > From using automake (GNU automake) 1.10 on cygwin, I noticed that > 'make distcheck' doesn't work when the build directory contains > spaces. This seems to also be true on unix (the reason it was noticed > on cygwin is because the default home directory seems to contain > spaces).
Yes. See automake/tests/instspc.test for what is expected to work and what fails, and why. distcheck is a developer's tool -- it helps to check that your packaging works, but it's not a mandatory target in the sense that it needs to work everywhere. Just distcheck your package in a build path that does not contain spaces. /tmp comes to mind. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
