Re: Makefile.static in EXTRA_DIST vanishes on make distcheck

2011-11-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 12 November 2011, Holger Hans wrote: > On 11/12/2011 09:34 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > On Thursday 10 November 2011, Holger Hans wrote: > > No, it's not gone -- the problem is sightly sublter: "make distcheck" > > performs a *VPATH build*, and in such a build the Makefile.static wo

Re: Makefile.static in EXTRA_DIST vanishes on make distcheck

2011-11-12 Thread Holger Hans Peter Freyther
On 11/12/2011 09:34 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Thursday 10 November 2011, Holger Hans wrote: >> Hi, >> > Hello Holger. Hi Stefano, >> > No, it's not gone -- the problem is sightly sublter: "make distcheck" > performs a *VPATH build*, and in such a build the Makefile.static won't > be place

problem with BUILT_SOURCES and make distcheck

2011-11-12 Thread Vincent Torri
Hey, I have written a library that use mupdf to render PDF document. mupdf must be linked statically to that library (there is no mupdf package on any distro, no shared lib). So I included the mupdf source into my lib tree: mylib/<--- tree of my lib mupdf-0.9/ <--- the sub dir containi

Re: Makefile.static in EXTRA_DIST vanishes on make distcheck

2011-11-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Thursday 10 November 2011, Holger Hans wrote: > Hi, > Hello Holger. > the project I am working on invokes another Makefile (to build a Linux kernel > module), I have placed this Makefile in the EXTRA_DIST but somehow on make > distcheck the Makefile.static is gone > No, it's not gone -- the pro