Re: make distcheck fails: permission denied

2002-12-12 Thread Dan Christian
On Thursday 12 December 2002 14:02, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "Dan" == Dan Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > Dan> However, when I do a "make check" on 1.6.3 it fails test > "lex5.test". Dan> Any ideas what is going wrong? > > No. There has been a lex5 failure reported against 1.

Re: make distcheck fails: permission denied

2002-12-12 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Dan" == Dan Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Dan> I tried 1.6.3. That worked OK. Great. Dan> However, when I do a "make check" on 1.6.3 it fails test "lex5.test". Dan> Any ideas what is going wrong? No. There has been a lex5 failure reported against 1.7.2 recently, but i

Re: make distcheck fails: permission denied

2002-12-12 Thread Dan Christian
On Thursday 12 December 2002 06:56, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "Dan" == Dan Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > Dan> Second, why didn't it fix the permissions? > > No idea, Automake 1.5 is old. > Does it still fail with Automake 1.7.2? I can't upgrade to 1.7.2, because it depends o

Passing configure options to make distcheck

2002-12-12 Thread John Levon
We have some code that is built by default, but cannot be successfully used with separate srcdir/objdir. However, a configure option can be used that doesn't need this code. make distcheck fails by default, but if I could pass in a configure option, it would work. Can I do this ? I'm using auto

Modifying installed script names ?

2002-12-12 Thread John Levon
Hi, we have three scripts that need to be installed differently depending on an configure option. If a condition is set, then op_start_25,op_dump_25,op_stop_25 need to be installed as op_start,op_dump,op_stop, otherwise we can just install the existing op_start/dump/stop in the source tree. How

automake/380: User produced dependency files - possible to usethem?

2002-12-12 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Alex" == Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> Hi, Alex> As part of my project I have some suffix rules to produce built sources Alex> from which I can produce automatic dependency information. Alex> My question is - is it possible to get automake to take these user Alex> define

Re: make distcheck fails: permission denied

2002-12-12 Thread Lars Hecking
> Dan> Second, why didn't it fix the permissions? > > No idea, Automake 1.5 is old. > Does it still fail with Automake 1.7.2? Yes, it is old, but one is stuck with it if one decides not to use autoconf 2.5x just yet. I think the odd 1.5.x bugfix release would be in order.

Re: automake 1.7.1 hangs while processing Makefile.am

2002-12-12 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Jason" == Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Jason> Thank you, this worked like a charm. I also had to add all possible Jason> format source files to EXTRA_DIST so they would be included in the Jason> distribution. :) Generally it's better to list these files in EXTRA_shnto

Re: Specifying include directories for groups of source files

2002-12-12 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "William" == William S Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: William> A question about groups of files in subdirectories. I William> would like Automake's generated Makefiles to compile William> groups of files using different include directories, William> that is, different INCLUDES (AM_CFLA

Re: make distcheck fails: permission denied

2002-12-12 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Dan" == Dan Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Dan> First, why is it trying to re-create the config stuff? It *copies* these files because it's trying to build a distribution. Dan> Second, why didn't it fix the permissions? No idea, Automake 1.5 is old. Does it still fail wit