On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote: > I don't understand automake's "make dist" support, and could use a clue. > I've boiled my problem down to the following tiny test case, in which > "./configure; make" works, but "make dist" fails. It seems that > make dist is unable to follow vpath. Is this a known problem? > > To reproduce the problem, do > wget http://kegel.com/pathprob.tgz > tar -xzvf pathprob.tgz > cd pathprob > touch NEWS README AUTHORS ChangeLog > aclocal > autoconf > automake --add-missing > ./configure > make dist > > This outputs > { test ! -d "foo-0.1" || { find "foo-0.1" -type d ! -perm -200 -exec > chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -fr "foo-0.1"; }; } > test -d "foo-0.1" || mkdir "foo-0.1" > (cd foobar && make top_distdir=../foo-0.1 distdir=../foo-0.1/foobar \ > am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: distdir) > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dank/pathprob/foobar' > cp: cannot stat `./george.c': No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [distdir] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dank/pathprob/foobar' > make: *** [distdir] Error 1 > > The test case consists of the four files > pathprob/Makefile.am pathprob/foobar/Makefile.am > pathprob/foobar/blah/george.c pathprob/configure.ac > with contents > > :::::::::::::: > pathprob/Makefile.am > :::::::::::::: > SUBDIRS = foobar > :::::::::::::: > pathprob/foobar/Makefile.am > :::::::::::::: > AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = \ > foreign \ > 1.9 \ > --warnings=no-portability > > lib_LIBRARIES = libfoobar.a > > vpath %.c @abs_srcdir@/blah >
I've never seen a line like this and it looks to be the part that's not working. The first thing I'd try is to move george.c to pathprob/foobar/george.c and if that works, either put sources next to this Makefile.am or move the guts of it to pathprob/foobar/blah/Makefile.am > libfoobar_a_SOURCES = george.c > :::::::::::::: > pathprob/foobar/blah/george.c > :::::::::::::: > int x = 1; > :::::::::::::: > pathprob/configure.ac > :::::::::::::: > AC_PREREQ(2.61) > AC_INIT([foo], > [0.1], > [d...@kegel.com], > [foo]) > AC_PROG_CC > AC_PROG_RANLIB > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE > > AC_CONFIG_FILES([ > Makefile > foobar/Makefile > ]) > AC_OUTPUT > > This is with automake 1.11.1 and autoconf 2.65. >
