On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > After this change, 'make dist' no longer works on the current Ubuntu version > (16.04.1 LTS). The failure is as follows. I'm not quite sure how to debug > this sort of thing, as the syntax checks are a bit twisty. Although this > isn't a huge obstacle to issuing a new grep release (as one can run 'make > dist' on the current Fedora version), it's still a bit troublesome. > > PS. I updated to the latest gnulib to fix a 'make check' failure on AIX 7.1. > > ... > space_tab > 0.01 space_tab > tight_scope > make[4]: Entering directory '/home/eggert/src/gnu/grep/src' > dfaalloc > dfacomp > dfaexec > dfafree > dfaisfast > dfamust > dfamustfree > dfasuperset > dfasyntax > case_folded_counterparts > init_localeinfo > the above functions should have static scope > /home/eggert/src/gnu/grep/tight-scope.mk:42: recipe for target > '_gl_tight_scope' failed > make[4]: *** [_gl_tight_scope] Error 1 > make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/eggert/src/gnu/grep/src' > maint.mk:1578: recipe for target 'sc_tight_scope' failed > make[3]: *** [sc_tight_scope] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/eggert/src/gnu/grep' > Makefile:1710: recipe for target 'run-syntax-check' failed > make[2]: *** [run-syntax-check] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/eggert/src/gnu/grep' > Makefile:1386: recipe for target 'distdir' failed > make[1]: *** [distdir] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/eggert/src/gnu/grep' > Makefile:1487: recipe for target 'dist' failed > make: *** [dist] Error 2 >
Hi Paul, That is probably because you have a stray dfa.o file laying around. Since that corresponds to a now-VC-removed dfa.c file, "make clean" fails to remove the .o file. Just remove it manually and the test should then pass.
