Hello, and sorry for chiming in so late, * Noah Slater wrote on Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:57:43PM CEST: > > # Makefile.am for installing configuration data > > etcdir=/etc/lx2005 > > etc_DATA = serlog.conf > > This is seriously broken. What if my /etc directory is read-only, for > example.
Exactly. > This breaks any hope of getting a VPATH build. You're confusing build tree (which has to do with VPATH) and install tree (which doesn't) here. > >When I run 'make distcheck' it fails as it cannot install the files to > >'/etc/lx2005'. > > Indeed, because distcheck makes sure the build uses VPATH. But that's not cause of the failure: distcheck makes sure files can be installed at all by the current user (to somewhere below `pwd` or TMPDIR). I think Stepan and others corrected most other things in this thread already. Cheers, Ralf
