>>> "David" == David Kirkby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> Hi, David> I have written a program 'atlc' David> http://atlc.sourceforge.net/ David> which get distributed with a lot of .bmp example files. If I run David> automake ; autoconf ; configure ; make distclean ; configure ; make David> distcheck David> The 'make distcheck' always fails, with the error message: David> ERROR: distcleancheck can only run from a VPATH build There is no such message in your output. If there were, `make' would have stopped immediately. David> then says: David> ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean: David> followed by a list of files. Yes, this is an error. David> However, those files are in 'EXTRA_DIST' so I would have thought the David> fact they are distributed, automake would not try to remove them with David> 'make distcheck' - is that right ?? This is right. So what's wrong here is that your *distributed* files end up in your *build directory*. You'll have to find out why. There is a section about this in the manual, see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#FAQ David> I'm not 100% sure what a VPATH build is A build performed out of the source code directory. This requires a make feature called VPATH to work (see `Compiling For Multiple Architectures' in file INSTALL), hence the name. [...] -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
