On Apr 2, 2000, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you tried to make dist in a a build dir that's not srcdir?
A long time ago, I installed a patch in autoconf to make it work. I
don't know if it has been broken again since then.
> Is it working for you when you start from a clean just-checked-out
> repository?
Nope. The first problem is that autoconf needs itself to bootstrap.
The second problem is that its aclocal.m4 must not be updated with
automake; instead, you must manually update the various m4 files
within the m4 directory. I'm not sure I like this setup.
The other problem is that, since automake no longer sees the AC_SUBSTs
in m4/*.m4, it won't automatically define them in the top-level
Makefile.in. That's why AMTAR is not defined at all :-(
I was able to pass `make dist' by running `make dist AMTAR="/bin/sh
/path/to/missing --run tar"'
However, in my case, the srcdir pathname is absolute. This may make a
difference.
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