On 01/10/2013 08:57 PM, Timothée Flutre wrote: > I updated M4, Autoconf and Automake to their latest version. In > Makefile.am, I'm added only this: > > AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \ > myprog_abspath='$(abs_srcdir)'/../src/myprog; \ > export myprog_abspath; > > And now "make check" works! However, "make distcheck" doesn't. This is due > to the fact that, for "make distcheck", the variable $(abs_srcdir) points > to ~/mypkg/mypkg-1.0/_build/../test/ while I'd like it to point to > ~/mypkg/mypkg-1.0/_build/test/. > > I also tried with this: > > AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \ > myprog_abspath='$(abs_top_srcdir)'/src/myprog; \ > export myprog_abspath; > > "make check" still works but "make distchek" doesn't because > $(abs_top_srcdir) now points to ~/mypkg/mypkg-1.0/_build/../ while I want > it to point to ~/mypkg/mypkg-1.0/_build/. > That's because I'm an idiot who fail to properly proof-read his own messages :-/ The definition above should use '$(abs_top_builddir)' rather than '$(abs_top_srcdir)' (unsurprisingly, the program is built in the build directory, not in the source directory). Sorry for the confusion.
> To summarize, when using "make distcheck", "myprog" is not in > ~/mypkg/mypkg-1.0/src/ but in ~/mypkg/mypkg-1.0/_build/src/. I don't > understand the rationale underlying this behavior. Why does "distcheck" > need to create _build? Any idea on how to solve my problem? > > BTW I had a look at the code of Coreutils here, > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/, but can't see any > Makefile.am. > <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/Makefile.am> But actually, the code I was referring to is here: <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/tests/local.mk> > Thanks already for all your advice, > Tim > Regards, Stefano
