bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of make distcheck

2015-03-24 Thread James Youngman
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:

bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of make distcheck

2015-03-24 Thread James Youngman
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

Re: Problems building coreutils HEAD against gnulib HEAD

2008-02-19 Thread James Youngman
On Feb 19, 2008 8:12 PM, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The goal here is not to delete all symlinks, just symlinks that are broken. Under the influence of -L, does -xtype l work like -lname '*' in detecting just the broken symlinks? For that you want find . -depth -type l -xtype l

Maintainer checks for non-c89 constructs?

2007-06-09 Thread James Youngman
I maintain findutils on a GNU/Linux system using GCC. Findutils uses gnulib to provide a number of portability features, and also extensions not in c89 such as bool. With the help of gnulib, some non-c89 things are available on c89-based systems. However, gnulib cannot make the compiler look

Acvhieving the equivalent of check-hook?

2007-05-19 Thread James Youngman
I'm currently using Automake-1.10. The project I am working on (findutils) uses automake and autoconf.At the moment there are some checks that I do for make dist which ensure that all DejaGnu tests are included in the tar file. I perform that check in dist-hook. This works fine, it's the