Hi Joshua, * Joshua Moore-Oliva wrote on Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:00:22AM CEST: > I have two files, cspm.lex and cspm.y that due to circumstances out of > my control need special processing. The only way I could get them > into the package without automake automatically processing them was by > using the EXTRA_DIST variable, as follows > > EXTRA_DIST = cspm.lex cspm.y > > I can make dist, and the package works fine. However, make distcheck > always fails with the following error
> bison -v -d cspm.y > bison: cannot open file `cspm.y': No such file or directory > > It appears as if distcheck is not including the EXTRA_DIST files in > its check. Is there any way I can force distcheck to include > EXTRA_DIST files during checking? It would be easier to say what's happening if you showed a bit more of your build setup, for example the rules that use cspm*. Without that information, I can only guess: Your package is broken with respect to VPATH builds, i.e., srcdir != builddir. "make distcheck" tests this. Try this: generate your tarball. In an empty directory, do: gzip -dc $PACKAGE.tar.gz | tar xvf - mkdir build cd build ../$PACKAGE/configure [OPTIONS] make make check If this fails, you may need to add a few $(srcdir) and/or $(builddir) prefixes to your rules (Automake mostly does this for you in its generated stuff). Don't hesitate to show the rules; even if it seems to work on your system, they can be tricky to get right so they work for any "make" implementation. Cheers, Ralf
