On 2014-11-12 Nick Bowler <nbow...@elliptictech.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On 2014-11-11 22:07 +0200, fr33domlover wrote: > > On 2014-11-11 > > Simon Richter <simon.rich...@hogyros.de> wrote: > > > On 11.11.2014 18:50, fr33domlover wrote: > > > > > > > When I ran `make distcheck`, it failed because the HTML files don't get > > > > cleaned by `make distclean`. That makes sense, but specifically for my > > > > package this is not an error. > [...] > > Hmmm I think I didn't make myself clear. So just to make sure, before I > > cause confusion: The files are indeed distributed validaly. The "problem" > > is that they are not cleaned by `make distclean`. I intentionally made them > > clean only on `make maintainer-clean`. When `make distcheck` sees they > > don't get cleaned by `make distclean`, it produces an error. > > I think your distribution tarballs are not working properly in VPATH > builds. Distcheck has found the problem but it is maybe not reporting > it very well. Here's a simplified view of how distcheck tests "make > distclean": > > - It unpacks the distribution tarball to be tested, and marks all > unpacked files read-only. > > - It runs configure in a separate, empty directory, i.e., srcdir > != builddir. > > - After doing a bunch of other tests, it runs "make distclean". > > - Then, if the build directory is not empty, report an error. > > What is probably happening is that in VPATH builds from your tarball, > your documentation is being rebuilt even though it was distributed. > This is leaving files behind in your build directory, which distcheck > is then complaining about. > > Hope that helps,
Maybe this is a problem too, but there's something before that - see the "make distclean" part above. I put the HTML files to be removed by "make maintainer-clean", which means that "make distclean" is *not supposed to remove them* - anyway, this is what I intend. So even without the error you suggest, it should complain about files left in the builddir. Am I right? I'll also check to see if the docs get unnecessarily rebuilt.
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