Hi Sander, * Sander Niemeijer wrote on Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:12:11PM CET: > > I think I have found a bug in automake.
I agree that this is a bug. > The problem is triggered by configuring the foo-1.0 package using a > full path to configure (or to use a build directory that differs from > the source directory) and running a 'make dist'. > distdir: $(DISTFILES) > $(am__remove_distdir) > mkdir $(distdir) > ---> $(mkdir_p) $(distdir)/$(top_srcdir)/data > Since srcdir (and thus also top_srcdir) is derived from the directory > component from the call to configure (i.e. the '/Users/sander/ > foo-1.0/' part from '/Users/sander/foo-1.0/configure') this will > translate into > --- > $(mkdir_p) $(distdir)/Users/sander/foo-1.0/data > --- > which is clearly wrong. Yes. I am not in a position to propose a fix, but in the example you gave there is an easy workaround to not use $(top_srcdir) in EXTRA_DIST. Just EXTRA_DIST = data/foo.txt is sufficient. Cheers, Ralf
