On 02/03/11 12:51, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > * Bruce Korb wrote on Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:48:25PM CET: >> P.S. in researching this, I found in my own logs a bunch of these: >>> rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc >>> mkdir: cannot create directory `.am21666': Permission denied >>> make[3]: Leaving directory >>> `/old-home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.11.6pre21/_build/doc' >> >> It all has to do with backup directories for texi stuff. >> Only happens in "make distcheck". Seems to be innocuous, >> but it is disconcerting. > > On what system, which Automake version was used (look at the first line > of a Makefile.in).
Hi Ralf, GNU/Linux x86-64 automake 1.11.1 $ automake --version;ag/config/config.guess ;head ag/Makefile.in automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Tom Tromey <tro...@redhat.com> and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <a...@gnu.org>. x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu # Makefile.in generated by automake 1.11.1 from Makefile.am.
