Re: vpath and make dist newbie problem

2012-10-22 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Dan Kegel wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Paul Davis > wrote: >> I've never seen a line like this and it looks to be the part that's >> not working. The first thing I'd try is to move george.c to >> pathprob/fo

Re: vpath and make dist newbie problem

2012-10-22 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Dan Kegel wrote: > I don't understand automake's "make dist" support, and could use a clue. > I've boiled my problem down to the following tiny test case, in which > "./configure; make" works, but "make dist" fails. It seems that > make dist is unable to follow vp

Re: Copy files in VPATH build

2010-11-08 Thread Paul Davis
know if something is going to be part of the build/generated by tests or is part of the source tarball. I'm not exactly sure which copies you're referring to needing, but another pattern I've seen is to just have a build target that copies all files to the build directory so that the knowledge of paths doesn't need to be considered. You can just treat everything as relative to where your tests are run. HTH, Paul Davis