This set of commands:
gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir m --with-tests maintainer-makefile
cd m
./configure
make distcheck
results in:
...
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: linking ../../gltests/GNUmakefile to GNUmakefile
config.status: error: ../../gltests/GNUmakefile: file not found
configure: error: ../../gltests/configure failed for gltests
make: *** [distcheck] Error 1
The build itself works fine. It is only the distcheck rule that fails.
Any ideas? I see this code in modules/gnumakefile:
configure.ac:
# Autoconf 2.61a.99 and earlier don't support linking a file only
# in VPATH builds. But since GNUmakefile is for maintainer use
# only, it does not matter if we skip the link with older autoconf.
# Automake 1.10.1 and earlier try to remove GNUmakefile in non-VPATH
# builds, so use a shell variable to bypass this.
GNUmakefile=GNUmakefile
m4_if(m4_version_compare([2.61a.100],
m4_defn([m4_PACKAGE_VERSION])), [1], [],
[AC_CONFIG_LINKS([$GNUmakefile:$GNUmakefile], [],
[GNUmakefile=$GNUmakefile])])
However, I am using autoconf 2.63, automake 1.10.1 and libtool 2.2.6a.
There is no gltests/GNUmakefile, should gnulib-tool have copied one?
That's not clear to me.
/Simon
