Simon Josefsson writes: > Btw, does anyone know why --create-testdir runs ./configure + make > distclean?
It does it when the gllib/ directory contains built sources. A possible and worthy optimization would be to do it only if it contains built sources that are not listed in MOSTLYCLEANFILES, CLEANFILES, or DISTCLEANFILES (or equivalently: if it contains built sources that are listed in EXTRA_DIST). Without this code, e.g. --create-testdir of the getdate module will create getdate.y but not getdate.c. I.e. if you transfer the resulting testdir to a machine that doesn't have bison, it will not work. What you can do for your situation, where the build machine does have the unusual tools like bison, autoconf, GNU sort etc., is to introduce a gnulib-tool option --assume-unual-tools that will skip this code that costs 3 hours. Bruno
