Hi Paul, Paul Jakma <p...@jakma.org> writes:
> My make distcheck is broken and I can't figure out how to fix it or > where the problem lies. It seems to be a similar issue to: > > http://gnu-automake.7480.n7.nabble.com/cannot-create-directory-am15097-Permission-denied-td209.html > > Mine does: > > ... > chmod -R a-w quagga-1.2.0 > chmod u+w quagga-1.2.0 > mkdir quagga-1.2.0/_build quagga-1.2.0/_build/sub quagga-1.2.0/_inst > chmod a-w quagga-1.2.0 > test -d quagga-1.2.0/_build || exit 0; \ > ... > > before going into quagga-1.2.0/_build/sub to do an out of source-tree > build in _build/sub on the sources in ../.. or quagga-1.2.0. Except > then at some stage later it fails trying to do a mkdir in > ../../../doc/ (i.e. quagga-1.2.0/doc): > > Making all in doc > make[3]: Entering directory > '/home/paul/code/quagga/quagga-1.2.0/_build/sub/doc' > make all-am > make[4]: Entering directory > '/home/paul/code/quagga/quagga-1.2.0/_build/sub/doc' > MAKEINFO ../../../doc/quagga.info > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘.am18743’: Permission denied > could not open ../../../doc/quagga.texi: No such file or directory > > With V=99: > > Making all in doc > make[3]: Entering directory > '/home/paul/code/quagga/quagga-1.2.0/_build/sub/doc' > make all-am > make[4]: Entering directory > '/home/paul/code/quagga/quagga-1.2.0/_build/sub/doc' > restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \ > am__cwd=`pwd` && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../../doc && \ > rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \ > if (makeinfo --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \ > for f in ../../../doc/quagga.info ../../../doc/quagga.info-[0-9] > ../../../doc/quagga.info-[0-9][0-9] ../../../doc/quagga.i[0-9] > ../../../doc/quagga.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 makeinfo -I ../../../doc \ > -o ../../../doc/quagga.info ../../../doc/quagga.texi; \ > then \ > rc=0; \ > CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../../doc; \ > else \ > rc=$?; \ > CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../../doc && \ > $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./../../../doc/quagga.info" | sed > 's|[^/]*$||'`; \ > fi; \ > rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘.am1976’: Permission denied > could not open ../../../doc/quagga.texi: No such file or directory > /bin/sh: line 16: cd: ../../../doc: No such file or directory > Makefile:493: recipe for target '../../../doc/quagga.info' failed > > I'm a bit mystified as to where to start looking. It don't see > anything obvious in the doc/Makefile.am. The only thing is we have a > 'defines.texi' that is built by automake from defines.texi.in and > declared as: > > BUILT_SOURCES = defines.texi > Can you provide a minimal example that allow others to reproduce the problem? Thanks. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
