Marco Maggi wrote: > 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. [...] > 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.
Fixed, the problem is not in Automake. This is what happened: I stick with "makeinfo" version 4.x, for development, because it is faster than "makeinfo" version 5.x; but I started building with version 5.x, from time to time, to check for compatibility. When I do it: I build the .info files under $(builddir)/doc, by hand, and $(builddir) is not $(srcdir); I forgot to clean up those files, and it appears "distcheck" was picking them to be included in the archive, even though they were stale with respect to the .texi sources. Removing the .info files from $(builddir)/doc fixed the problem. Sorry for the noise on this list. -- "Now feel the funk blast!" Rage Against the Machine - "Calm like a bomb"
