Hello Ruben, Apologies for the delay, I must have missed this somehow: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/8983>
* Ruben Henner Zilibowitz wrote on Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:59:44PM CET: > I have run into a problem where the following line: > ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 > in the top level Makefile.am causes "make dist" to fail. Eg: > > Ruben-Henner-Zilibowitzs-iMac:hello rhz$ make dist > { test ! -d hello-0.1 || { find hello-0.1 -type d ! -perm -200 -exec > chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -fr hello-0.1; }; } > test -d hello-0.1 || mkdir hello-0.1 > /bin/sh: hello-0.1/Bunga: No such file or directory > cp: hello-0.1/m4/am_prog_mkdir_p.m4: No such file or directory > make: *** [distdir] Error 1 > > Removing "ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4" solves the problem, but I have > another project which needs this for autoconf to work correctly, so I > can't remove it, so "make dist" always fails there. If anyone can help > explain what might be going wrong exactly here, I'd really appreciate > it. I don't yet see what's going on, could you make the package available somehow, or a small subset of it that reproduces the failure? Which Automake version do you use? Cheers, Ralf