Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> The distcheck target in newer automake is a bit stricter than in >> previous versions. Among others it requires that when doing a VPATH >> build, _nothing_ should change outside the build dir. >> >> The scripts in xforms/forms does not ahere to this rule. > | Hmmm. I guess that this is the problem then: > | (cd ${DIRNAME} && ${FDESIGN} -convert ${FDFILE}) || | { | echo "\"${FDESIGN} -convert ${FDFILE}}\" failed. Please investigate." | exit 1 | } > | IIRC, fdesign must be run in the directory containing the .fd file. | That changes with XForms 1.1, allowing '-dir destdir' to be passed to | fdesign so that it outputs all generated files in destdir. That's no | help here of course because we still support XForms 1.0.
-dir destdir is not really needed, what is needed is the argument to -convert to be any file with path. | So I guess that you'll have to copy ${FDFILE} over to the build tree | if build tree != src tree. You'll then be able to run fdesign in the | build directory. Not if I use ./*.fd ... This should also be fixed in fdesign I guess. -- Lgb