On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:55:53PM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
> No errors,
> except for this incomprehensible thing.
> [lots of commands] \
> && make distcleancheck
> configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in config ../config
> make: *** [distcheck] Error 1
Not sure whether this is relevent or not, but it might offer a
clue.
I saw something kind of similar in a package I worked on. The
package used AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(), and it was from one of the
subdirectories that the distributions were built:
pkg-root/
Makefile.am
configure.ac
bar/
baz/
distrib/
Makefile.am
configure.ac
more-stuff
One went "cd pkg-root/distrib; make dist" to build a
distribution. I can no longer recall why (maybe just because I
didn't understand things too well :-), but one had to run
automake separately in both pkg-root and pkg-root/distrib.
The problem was that, in distrib:
- "automake --add-missing" didn't think install-sh was in fact
missing, because it could find the copy in pkg-root, because:
- its default search path is ($SRCDIR $SRCDIR/..
$SRCDIR/../..)
- the file had already been installed in pkg-root by the
"automake --add-missing" that had been run there
- For the same reason, pathnames in distrib got configured to
../install-sh and the like, which masked the problem for the
most part
- But install-sh didn't make it into distributions, so trying
to build from one of those would blow up
(There may have been similar problems with other files that
--add-missing is supposed to deal with.)
Workaround: add this to pkg-root/distrib/configure.ac:
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])
That defeats the search path shown above, which keeps automake
from seeing ../install-sh etc., and thus forces it to put another
copy directly into distrib.
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