Ciao,
I use the Autotools in several packages with no problems running "make
distcheck", but in a single package I get an error. I am on a
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu with Autoconf 2.69 and Automake 1.14, and I
use:
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-xz no-dist-gzip])
AFAICT with almost all of my packages: when running "distcheck" the
documentation is built only in PDF format, not Info format; the Info
files are already present in the distribution archive.
In a single package[1] I get:
Making all in doc
make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/marco/src/devel/scheme/vicare-scheme/=build.devel/vicare-scheme-0.3d5/_build/doc'
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
am__cwd=`pwd` && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../doc && \
rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
if (/bin/sh
/home/marco/src/devel/scheme/vicare-scheme/=build.devel/vicare-scheme-0.3d5/autotools/missing
makeinfo --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
for f in ../../doc/vicare-scheme.info ../../doc/vicare-scheme.info-[0-9]
../../doc/vicare-scheme.info-[0-9][0-9] ../../doc/vicare-scheme.i[0-9]
../../doc/vicare-scheme.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
done; \
else :; fi && \
cd "$am__cwd"; \
if /bin/sh
/home/marco/src/devel/scheme/vicare-scheme/=build.devel/vicare-scheme-0.3d5/autotools/missing
makeinfo -I ../../doc \
-o ../../doc/vicare-scheme.info ../../doc/vicare-scheme.texi; \
then \
rc=0; \
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../doc; \
else \
rc=$?; \
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../doc && \
$restore $backupdir/* `echo "./../../doc/vicare-scheme.info" | sed
's|[^/]*$||'`; \
fi; \
rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
mkdir: cannot create directory '.am7834': Permission denied
../../doc/vicare-scheme.texi: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [../../doc/vicare-scheme.info] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/marco/src/devel/scheme/vicare-scheme/=build.devel/vicare-scheme-0.3d5/_build/doc'
the problem seems to be that the Info files from the dist archive are
extracted with last modification time older than their corresponding
Texinfo files from the dist archive; this causes the Info files to be
rebuilt, which fails because the "doc" directory has permissions 0550.
This happens also when I make sure to remove all the Info files in the
original build tree and rebuild them, so that I can verify[2] that the
Info files are newer. It was not happening on this very package until I
split the documentation to 3 master files, rather than an all inclusive
one.
Was I just lucky not to be hit by this before? I would like not to
use the "info-in-builddir" option.
TIA
[1] <https://github.com/marcomaggi/vicare/tree/devel>
[2]
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4561895/how-to-recursively-find-the-latest-modified-file-in-a-directory>
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