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

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