Re: "make dist" and "make distcheck" trouble

2009-09-28 Thread John Calcote
On 9/28/2009 7:09 PM, John Calcote wrote: Bruce, On 9/28/2009 7:03 PM, David Bruce wrote: Sorry David, then I went and got your first and last names mixed up. Perhaps I'd better just be quiet now. ;)

Re: "make dist" and "make distcheck" trouble

2009-09-28 Thread John Calcote
Bruce, On 9/28/2009 7:03 PM, David Bruce wrote: Hello Ralf, I found it! It was an utterly perversely subtle typographical error: In my src/Makefile.am: tuxmathserver_SOURCES = servermain.c\ server.c \ mathcards.c \ throttle.c \

Re: "make dist" and "make distcheck" trouble

2009-09-28 Thread David Bruce
Hello Ralf, I found it! It was an utterly perversely subtle typographical error: In my src/Makefile.am: tuxmathserver_SOURCES = servermain.c\ server.c \ mathcards.c \ throttle.c \ . options.c ^ | | A

Re: "make dist" and "make distcheck" trouble

2009-09-28 Thread David Bruce
Hello Ralf, > Which Autoconf and Automake versions do you use? dbr...@penguinmaster:~/tuxmath-1.7.3$ automake --version automake (GNU automake) 1.11 dbr...@penguinmaster:~/tuxmath-1.7.3$ autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.64 (my usual development machine is Debian Sid) ...intervening

Re: "make dist" and "make distcheck" trouble

2009-09-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* David Bruce wrote on Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 01:08:58AM CEST: > On 9/27/09, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * David Bruce wrote on Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 04:51:01AM CEST: > >> My project is not creating valid tarballs with "make dist", and "make > >> distcheck" fails at the VPATH build stage. > > > > Pleas

Re: how to detect broken install-sh?

2009-09-28 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 08:56 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > You're much better off arguing that packages update to Autoconf 2.64, > in many cases the configure script will shrink by more than 15K over > the one generated by 2.63 (and it'll be a bit faster, too). Nice! - and I think they should