Hi, I've just been trying to submit this as a PR at sources.redhat.com, but I can't get that system to work (get a "Submitter-Id is 'unknown'" error). So: Synopsis: Optional subdirectories cause make distcheck to fail Release: cvs automake (Aug 30 2000) Environment: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 autoconf version 2.13 Description: If a project has optionally compiled subdirectories, and a make distcheck is performed on a copy of the project with those subdirectories turned off, then make distcheck will fail. This is due to make distcheck's check that make distclean removes all files: make distclean leaves the Makefile (and .deps/*.Plo, .deps/*.Po) files in the optionally turned off subdirectories. File Attachments: automake_testcase.tgz How-To-Repeat: tar zxvf automake_testcase.tgz; aclocal;automake --add-missing;autoconf;./configure;make distcheck Fix: Either use $(DIST_SUBDIRS) instead of $(SUBDIRS) in the rule for make distclean (and make maintainerclean), or make make distcheck not mind leftover Makefiles and makefile parts. -- Richard _______________________________________________ Automake mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/automake
