Hi, On 3/3/17, Paul Jakma <p...@jakma.org> wrote: > My make distcheck is broken and I can't figure out how to fix it or > where the problem lies. [...] > 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; \ [...] > 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
One of the things 'make distcheck' tests it that it can run builds from a read-only source tree. That is, remove all write permissions from the unpacked tarball, then perform build actions (at the same time, it is doing a VPATH build). This includes running 'make dist' from such a source tree. It looks to me like you have a problem where some build rule is trying to write to srcdir (this is a common way to write rules when distributing generated files) This probably means you have a timestamp problem in your distribution tarball (e.g., some distributed files are older than their source files). Expected behaviour on a freshly unpacked tarball is that all such generated files are up to date, and therefore no build rules will attempt to update them. Cheers, Nick
