I should mention that changing to the source directory and executing 'automake --force' seems to clear up this problem when it occurs. It seems that there must be an ordering problem to maintainer-mode activities which results in the tarballs not being removed properly.
I have seen the problem three times already while using Automake 1.8.3. I did not see it with 1.8.2 (which was used for quite a while), but I did see it several minor releases back (don't remember which). Bob On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > I am once again experiencing problems with Automake leaving behind the > distribution files it built so 'make distcheck' fails: > > ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean: > ./GraphicsMagick-1.2.020040419.tar.gz > ./GraphicsMagick-1.2.020040419.tar.bz2 > ./GraphicsMagick-1.2.020040419.zip > gmake[1]: *** [distcleancheck] Error 1 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory > `/usr/home/bfriesen/build/GraphicsMagick-8-static/GraphicsMagick-1.2.020040418/_build' > > % automake --version > automake (GNU automake) 1.8.3 > > This is under FreeBSD 5.X. > > What steps should I take to find the cause of this problem? > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen > > > ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
