Paul Jakma <p...@jakma.org> writes: > On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > >> I stopped digging when I saw that I need libcares which is not provided >> by my distro. > > Ah, well, it's only needed for nhrpd, which can be disabled with > --disable-nhrpd. I'm not sure if the configure script handles it > correctly though. > >> in "doc/Makefile.am" 'quagga_TEXINFOS' contains "defines.texi". By >> default files in 'quagga_TEXINFOS' are distributed in the >> tarball. since "defines.texi" is a generated file you don't want to >> distribute it. Putting it in 'nodist_quagga_TEXINFOS' instead >> should fix your issue. > > Even with defines.texi not distributed, or regenerated in the > distcheck build, it still fails. Cause quagga.info depends on it. :( > > I tried nodist_quagga_TEXINFOS and got the same result. > > The automake option to build the info in the builddir worked though!
OK. >> The error message of 'make distcheck' is not really helpful to detect >> this issue, I am trying to see if something can be done to improve that. > > That would be great. :) It's very difficult to figure out the issue > without help. > > Thanks! > > Oh, I also had to add: > > # do nothing for DVI, so we don't have to generate or distribute EPS > # figures > dvi: # nothing I Will take a look. > to my doc/Makefile.am, or it would fail checking the 'dvi' > target. Does anyone use DVI anymore? It's been probably 20 years since > I did. Does it still need to be a default generated target? I don't know. :) > Now I've got errors from 'distcleancheck', but those are definitely > ones I wanted to see. ;) Thanks. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
