It was the macros going into the *source* directory in order to build its products. Bad. But anyway, the cause was a minor misordering of build functions. Thank you. :)
On Saturday 09 July 2005 02:26 pm, Bruce Korb wrote: > Hi, > > I am sure that this is some config issue, but Google gives no help > on this one. "make" and "make check" are all happy, but when I > get to "make distcheck" it dies in the doc directory doing strange > things that I cannot even speculate about. > > > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.7.1/_build/doc' > restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \ > am__cwd=`pwd` && cd ../../doc && \ > rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \ > for f in autogen.info autogen.info-[0-9] autogen.info-[0-9][0-9] \ > autogen.i[0-9] autogen.i[0-9][0-9]; do \ > if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \ > done; \ > cd "$am__cwd"; \ > if /bin/sh /home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.7.1/_build/config/missing \ > --run makeinfo-I../../autoopts -I../autoopts -I ../../doc \ > -o autogen.info autogen.texi; \ > then \ > rc=0; \ > cd ../../doc; \ > else \ > rc=$?; \ > cd ../../doc && \ > $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./autogen.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \ > fi; \ > rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc > mkdir: cannot create directory `.am15097': Permission denied > autogen.info: Permission denied > make[2]: *** [autogen.info] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.7.1/_build/doc' > make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 > > > So, it looks like it was trying to create a backup directory named, > ".am15097" but it could not. However: > > $ ls -dog /home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.7.1/_build/doc > drwxr-xr-x 2 845 Jul 9 14:13 /home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.7.1/_build/doc > > it looks like it has permission to me. What's going on? :) > > Thank you. Regards, Bruce >
