bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of make distcheck
I'm seeing a failure of make distcheck which I think is caused by
the fact that Automake 1.14.1's rule for .texi.info is trying to
create a backup directory in a read-only directory:
(sorry about what appear to be problems with leading space)
$ cat doc/Makefile.in
...
.texi.info:
$(AM_V_MAKEINFO)restore=: backupdir=$(am__leading_dot)am \
am__cwd=`pwd` $(am__cd) $(srcdir) \
rm -rf $$backupdir mkdir $$backupdir \
if ($(MAKEINFO) --version) /dev/null 21; then \
for f in $@ $@-[0-9] $@-[0-9][0-9] $(@:.info=).i[0-9]
$(@:.info=).i[0-9][0-9]; do \
if test -f $$f; then mv $$f $$backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
done; \
else :; fi \
cd $$am__cwd; \
if $(MAKEINFO) $(AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS) $(MAKEINFOFLAGS) -I $(srcdir) \
-o $@ $; \
then \
rc=0; \
$(am__cd) $(srcdir); \
else \
rc=$$?; \
$(am__cd) $(srcdir) \
$$restore $$backupdir/* `echo ./$@ | sed 's|[^/]*$$||'`; \
fi; \
rm -rf $$backupdir; exit $$rc
...
$ make distcheck
...
make[3]: Entering directory
'/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/_build/doc'
cp ../locate/dblocation.texi dblocation.texi
restore=: backupdir=.am$$ \
am__cwd=`pwd` CDPATH=${ZSH_VERSION+.}: cd ../../doc \
rm -rf $backupdir mkdir $backupdir \
if (/bin/sh
/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/build-aux/missing
makeinfo --version) /dev/null 21; then \
for f in ../../doc/find.info ../../doc/find.info-[0-9]
../../doc/find.info-[0-9][0-9] ../../doc/find.i[0-9]
../../doc/find.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
done; \
else :; fi \
cd $am__cwd; \
if /bin/sh
/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/build-aux/missing
makeinfo -I ../../doc \
-o ../../doc/find.info ../../doc/find.texi; \
then \
rc=0; \
CDPATH=${ZSH_VERSION+.}: cd ../../doc; \
else \
rc=$?; \
CDPATH=${ZSH_VERSION+.}: cd ../../doc \
$restore $backupdir/* `echo ./../../doc/find.info | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
fi; \
rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
mkdir: cannot create directory '.am22323': Permission denied
could not open ../../doc/find.texi: No such file or directory
Makefile:1648: recipe for target '../../doc/find.info' failed
make[3]: *** [../../doc/find.info] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
'/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/_build/doc'
Makefile:1695: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/_build'
Makefile:1635: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/_build'
Makefile:1910: recipe for target 'distcheck' failed
make: *** [distcheck] Error 1
$ ls -l -d
/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/_build/doc
/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/_build/
/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/
dr-xr-xr-x 14 james lp 4096 Mar 23 23:52
/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/
drwxr-xr-x 12 james lp 4096 Mar 23 23:53
/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/_build/
drwxr-xr-x 2 james lp 4096 Mar 23 23:54
/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/_build/doc
$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1
Copyright (C) 2013 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.
In case it matters, my regular compile directory (in which make
distcheck was invoked) is also a VPATH build, as is the build
configuration created by make distcheck.
I see that this part of the Automake code changed since the release of
1.14.1, At first glance it looks to me as if git comit
cdba479fe5739555ad9ec30e0224f24b2facf548 might fix the problem. Is
this likely?
I experimented with AM_MAKEINFOHTMLFLAGS = --no-split but this
didn't seem to mitigate my problem. What else could I try as a
workaround (apart from install source-built packages of things into
/usr/local until the problem goes away)?
Thanks,
James.
bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of make distcheck
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, James Youngman wrote: I'm seeing a failure of make distcheck which I think is caused by the fact that Automake 1.14.1's rule for .texi.info is trying to create a backup directory in a read-only directory: Hi James, the .info file in the read-only directory should not be older than the .texi file (and other dependencies), thus the rule for .texi.info should never be used during make distcheck. Something wrong with your timestamps and or filesystem? Regards Peter Breitenlohner p...@mppmu.mpg.de
bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of make distcheck
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Peter Breitenlohner p...@mppmu.mpg.de wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, James Youngman wrote: I'm seeing a failure of make distcheck which I think is caused by the fact that Automake 1.14.1's rule for .texi.info is trying to create a backup directory in a read-only directory: Hi James, the .info file in the read-only directory should not be older than the .texi file (and other dependencies), thus the rule for .texi.info should never be used during make distcheck. The timestamps look OK to me: $ ls -ltri --full-time $( find /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/findutils /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64 \( -name find.info\* -o -name find.texi \) ) 3967808 -r--r--r-- 1 james lp 220524 2015-03-23 09:45:58.0 + /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/doc/find.texi 2983056 -rw-r--r-- 1 james lp 220524 2015-03-23 09:45:58.424857809 + /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/findutils/doc/find.texi 3967801 -r--r--r-- 1 james lp 11671 2015-03-23 22:39:18.0 + /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/doc/find.info-2 3965120 -r--r--r-- 1 james lp 302487 2015-03-23 22:39:18.0 + /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/doc/find.info-1 3967805 -r--r--r-- 1 james lp 6293 2015-03-23 22:39:18.0 + /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/doc/find.info 2983128 -rw-r--r-- 1 james lp 302487 2015-03-23 22:39:18.595150555 + /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/findutils/doc/find.info-1 2983129 -rw-r--r-- 1 james lp 11671 2015-03-23 22:39:18.659148601 + /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/findutils/doc/find.info-2 2983130 -rw-r--r-- 1 james lp 6293 2015-03-23 22:39:18.667148357 + /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/findutils/doc/find.info $ make -C /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/doc -n find.info make: Entering directory '/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/doc' make: 'find.info' is up to date. make: Leaving directory '/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/doc' Perhaps the cause is this rule, though: dblocation.texi: ../locate/dblocation.texi cp ../locate/dblocation.texi $@ This will clearly update the mtime of dblocation.texi. However, this rule is intended as a workaround for what would otherwise be a failure in make dvi. The texi file is changed: $ git diff doc/find.texi | cat diff --git a/doc/find.texi b/doc/find.texi index 7aa20e5..fe0b2ce 100644 --- a/doc/find.texi +++ b/doc/find.texi @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ @c %**end of header @include version.texi -@include ../locate/dblocation.texi +@include dblocation.texi @iftex @finalout However, the old version of this code no longer works with the combination of TeX and texinfo I have installed. Reverting the change, rebuilding the makefiles (i.e. re-running gnulib-tool etc.) and doing make dist again we see the failure that I made the above change to evade: make[2]: Entering directory '/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/_build/doc' TEXINPUTS=../../build-aux:$TEXINPUTS \ MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/build-aux/missing makeinfo -I ../../doc' \ texi2dvi --build-dir=find.t2d -o find.dvi \ ../../doc/find.texi This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2015/dev/Debian) (preloaded format=etex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/doc/f ind.texi (/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/doc/t exinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 2014-05-05.10]: pdf, fonts, markup, glyphs, page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros, cross references, insertions, (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 14 February 2011 ) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.) (/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/doc/v ersion.texi) /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/doc/fi nd.texi:10: I can't find file `../locate/dblocation.texi'. @temp -@input ../locate/dblocation.texi @includezzz ...and @input #1 }@expandafter }@temp @popthisfilestack l.10 @include ../locate/dblocation.texi (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit) Please type another input file name: /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/compile/64/findutils-4.5.15-git/doc/fi nd.texi:10: I can't find file `../locate/dblocation.texi'. @temp -@input ../locate/dblocation.texi @includezzz ...and @input #1 }@expandafter }@temp
