Hello David, * David Fang wrote on Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 05:27:22AM CEST: > With automake 1.9.6, I'm getting distcheck failures during the > install phase (or just during non-distcheck make install): > > ============= reduced Makefile.am ================= > # let package name == 'yoyodyne' > > foodir = $(pkgdatadir)/foo > > foo_DATA = file1 > dist_foo_DATA = file2 [...]
> which errors out during "make DESTDIR=/tmp/somewhere install" > on the second iteration of the for-loop. > > mkdir: /tmp/somewhere/usr/local/share/yoyodyne/foo: File exists Please post the exact and complete output, and system you are on. 'mkdir -p' may not fail if the directory already exists. If you are using parallel make, please move to Automake-1.10 first. (Side note: if you want to ignore a rule command, you can prefix it with '-'. But no necessity here, the bug is elsewhere.) Thanks, Ralf
