>>> "Braden" == Braden McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] >> > EXTRA_DIST = manual [...] >> > html: manual [...] >> > install-data-local: manual installdirs-local >> > $(INSTALL_DATA) ./manual/* $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual [...] >> > manual: >> > $(DOXYGEN) >> > >> > When "make distcheck" runs "make install", I get this: [...] >> > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./manual/* >> > /home/bmcdaniel/src/openvrml/openvrml/BUILD/openvrml-0.14.99/_inst/share/doc/openvrml-0.14.99/manual >> > /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `./manual/*': No such file or directory >> >> Where are the contents created? $top_srcdir/manual or >> $top_builddir/manual? Braden> $builddir/manual, which is the same as $top_builddir/doc/manual. Because the manual is distributed (EXTRA_DIST) there is a copy of it in $(srcdir)/manual at this point of distcheck. Because $(srcdir)/manual exists and we have VPATH=$(srcdir), the `manual' dependency of `install-data-local' is satisfied and the manual is not recreated (which is undoubtedly what you want, otherwise you wouldn't distribute it). Hence either the install rule is wrong in assuming that the manual is always in the build directory, or the build rule is wrong in building the manual in the build directory. I suggest you always build distributed files in the source directory. (BTW this is mandatory if you want to support VPATH builds with some non-GNU implementation of make.) -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
