Hi Charles,
Thanks for the bug report.
* Charles Wilson wrote on Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:32:12AM CET:
>
> ../../libtool-HEAD/tests/subproject.at:56: $MAKE all $tst_dist
> + make all dist
[...]
> mkdir: cannot create directory
> `/usr/src/libtool/cvs/_build/tests/testsuite.dir/33/subproject-demo-2.1a/sub/ltdl':
>
> File exists
> make[2]: *** [distdir] Error 1
AFAICS, this can only happen if libltdl was treated with automake-1.9
and the tests run with automake-1.10 in place, so that the toplevel
package (named subproject-demo-2.1a) is treated with 1.10.
Hmm. This is kind of a backward incompatibility, unfortunately.
It can be helped by using the same Automake version for both
bootstrapping and testing, or by using 1.10 for libltdl.
[...]
> Now, I'm not sure how to "solve" this problem: I don't know what the policy
> is on the required version of automake for libtool-HEAD, but I'm pretty sure
> it isn't "require 1.10". But I also don't know if automake-1.9.x is still
> under development, and would accept the above backport for some future
> automake-1.9.7 release.
Alexandre said he did not want to continue 1.9. If there were to be
another point release, this patch would certainly be a good candidate
IMHO. For reference, below's the patch including ChangeLog entry.
Cheers,
Ralf
2007-03-26 Charles Wilson <...>
* lib/am/distdir.am (distdir): Do not fail if $(distdir) already
exists, for forward compatibility with Automake 1.10 that
overrides the removal due to $(am__remove_distdir). Fixes `make
dist' failures in which the toplevel package uses 1.10, but a
subpackage 1.9 only.
Index: lib/am/distdir.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/lib/am/distdir.am,v
retrieving revision 1.60.2.1
diff -u -r1.60.2.1 distdir.am
--- lib/am/distdir.am 14 May 2005 20:29:20 -0000 1.60.2.1
+++ lib/am/distdir.am 26 Mar 2007 18:36:36 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
## automake - create Makefile.in from Makefile.am
-## Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+## Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
##
if %?TOPDIR_P%
$(am__remove_distdir)
- mkdir $(distdir)
+ test -d $(distdir) || mkdir $(distdir)
endif %?TOPDIR_P%
##
##
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