"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VPATH builds work for me in current coreutils head. However, > "distcheck" gails. > > GNUmakefile exists in $(top_srcdir) but not the build directory. > Distcheck does "make distcheck-hook". That's defined in the Makefile > (from $(top_srcdir)/Makefile.am):- > > distcheck-hook: check-ls-dircolors > $(MAKE) my-distcheck > > Unfortunately my-distcheck is only defined in GNUmakefile, not in > Makefile. So this error results:
Thanks for reporting that. I've known about this problem for a long time, but it hasn't ever seemed worth the trouble of fixing it. Since I invariably run "make distcheck" from the source directory, even if I did fix it, I would rarely exercise that code path. And "make distcheck" takes long enough as it is without adding a second run for a non-srcdir build, that I don't want to automate it that way. But if you're interested, and the changes aren't too invasive, who knows... :-) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
