Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The readonly setting during distcheck is supposed to be a feature: > When you issue 'make distcheck', first the dist target is updated, > i.e., a tarball is created, then that is unpacked, then the unpacked > directory is made readonly, and a VPATH build (source tree != build > tree) is performed. The readonly source tree checks that your tarball > is self-contained, ie. does not update or create anything below the > source tree. > > In some situations, this might be too strict, but most of the time it > can be achieved by fixing the distribution. How does your specific > problem look like?
OK, that's great. Thanks for explaining that. My current problem is that I have some reference netCDF files, which ship with the distribution. I also have a test program, which produces data files that need to be identical to the reference files shipped with the dist. But the problem is the reference files are in the source directory, and the test files are in the build directory. At the moment, I am doing this with a one-line shell script, which does something like this: cmp nctest_classic.nc ref_nctest_classic.nc What I need to do, apparently, is somehow construct this shell script from the Makefile, using $(srcdir) somehow. Or is there a way to use some make target for this? Any suggestions or web examples would be helpful. I'm going to take another look at the info files and around the web. There must be a better way to run this cmp test without a whole extra shell script! Thanks, Ed -- Ed Hartnett -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
