My project is not creating valid tarballs with "make dist", and "make distcheck" fails at the VPATH build stage.
1. My project has all the *.c source files in a src directory under trunk. I normally always do vpath builds, and the svn src directory contains no object files. In the tarball, however, the src directory contains not only the source files, but all the object files as well, and also copies of anything else in the svn src directory - foo.o, foo.c~ and the like. 2. If I do an in-tree build on the tarball, it works. 3. If I do a vpath build on the tarball, it fails - no *.o files get made in the build/src directory. 4. If I first remove all the *.o files that are (incorrectly) included in the tarball src directory, then do a vpath build, it succeeds. 5. If I do a make distcheck from either the tarball or svn, either in-tree or vpath, it fails at make distcheck's own vpath stage. 6. The project has two other source subdirs at the same level as src that get handled correctly. So somehow "make dist" is wrongly putting the object files for src into the tarball in an "in-tree" fashion, and this apparently confuses a subsequent vpath build into not compiling the needed files. Plus, "make dist" is copying absolutely everything from the svn src directory into the tarball, even files never mentioned in any Makefile.am I've looked at the top-level and src Makefile.am files for flags that might be wrong, without seeing any clear culprit. I would be happy to post whatever files or output might help figure this out. Does any of this sound like any familiar problem? Thanks for any help, David Bruce
