Re: make dist fails
Hello Kai, * Kai Sterker wrote on Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:02:07AM CEST: I have a strange problem with the 'make dist' target. I've been using automake 1.10.1 and autoconf 2.62. Updating to 1.10.2 and 2.63 showed exactly the same behavior. Which libltdl version is the one you're using, and which Automake version was its libltdl/Makefile.in created with? Can you post your toplevel Makefile.am? Can you also post the output of make dist SHELL=/bin/sh -x with all generated files unchanged? Thanks, Ralf
Re: make dist fails
Hello Kai, * Kai Sterker wrote on Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:46:29AM CEST: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Can you post your toplevel Makefile.am? Can you also post the output of make dist SHELL=/bin/sh -x with all generated files unchanged? Did configure in a fresh directory, then ran make dist SHELL=/bin/sh -x make-dist.log See attached files. The shell trace shows that this command is called ../adonthell/./install-sh -c -d adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/config adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/scripts It should create the two directories adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/config adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/scripts but apparently it fails to create the second directory. Unless you have an install-sh script with a scriptversion older than 2004-01-08.23, this should work as expected. If your script is older, then upgrade it using 'automake --add-missing --force-missing' and ensure that 'make dist' works for you now; otherwise, i.e., if your install-sh script is newer but things still fail, please post the output of rm -rf adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/config adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/scripts /bin/sh -x ../adonthell/./install-sh -c -d \ adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/config adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/scripts when executed in the top build directory. Thanks, Ralf
Re: make dist fails
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: The shell trace shows that this command is called ../adonthell/./install-sh -c -d adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/config adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/scripts It should create the two directories adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/config adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/scripts but apparently it fails to create the second directory. Unless you have an install-sh script with a scriptversion older than 2004-01-08.23, this should work as expected. Tenebrae:~/adonthell/adonthell kai$ ls -la install-sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 kai staff 7122 Jul 21 2003 install-sh If your script is older, then upgrade it using 'automake --add-missing --force-missing' and ensure that 'make dist' works for you now; It does :-). Thanks a lot for your help ... would never have found that myself! Kai
make dist fails for directories with spaces in their name
I'm using automake 1.10 on cygwin where my home directory is /home/Paul Brannan. I have a project located in my home directory which uses automake. I can build and install the project, however make dist fails, because it does not create the dist directory correctly. Two changes are necessary to fix the problem: - $distdir must be quoted whenever it is used - The $(MKDIR_P) line in the distdir rule that creates the dist directory must be quoted as well. I have worked around this bug by post-processing all my Makefile.in files after invoking automake.
