On 2014-11-12 Nick Bowler <nbow...@elliptictech.com> wrote: > On 2014-11-12 21:58 +0200, fr33domlover wrote: > > On 2014-11-12 > > Nick Bowler <nbow...@elliptictech.com> wrote: > > > 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 think there may be some confusion about what distclean is supposed to > do. It is supposed to delete all generated files that were not part of > the original distribution. MAINTAINERCLEANFILES is a red herring. > > In a VPATH build, there is a strict separation between the distributed > files (in srcdir), and the build outputs (in builddir). By definition, > any file that shows up in builddir in this case was not part of the > distribution (as it was created after unpacking the tarball), so > distclean must delete it. > > Distcheck is complaining about this apparent discrepancy. The usual > cause of these errors is when distributed files get erroneously rebuilt. > > Since distributed files being rebuilt essentially defeats the whole > point of distributing them in the first place, this suggests a bug in > the build process. Perhaps the distribution timestamps are not correct. > > Cheers,
Here's part of my code:
all-local: ref
ref: ref-html
ref-html: ref-full-html ref-api-html
ref-full: ref-full-html
ref-api: ref-api-html
ref-full-html: $(reference_full_devhelp_chosen) \
$(dist_reference_full_DATA)
ref-api-html: $(reference_api_devhelp_chosen) \
$(dist_reference_api_DATA)
How does make determine whether it should rebuilt? After unpacking, the tag
file obviously has new last-modified/created time - maybe this causes make to
decide it must rebuild? The file is fresh new from the tarball, but it was of
course built at dist-time...
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