> So, the cause is that an autogenerated and platform-dependent 'texindex' > script was included in the tarball. Removing it from the tarball will fix > the issue.
Another way to find this problem is: After unpacking the tarball, $ ./configure && make && make distclean should leave the same tarball contents on disk (with possibly some empty directories added). In fact what I see is: $ LC_ALL=C diff -r -q texinfo-6.7.90.orig texinfo-6.7.90 \ | sed -e 's|: |/|' \ | grep -v '/\.deps$' Only in texinfo-6.7.90/gnulib/lib/sys Only in texinfo-6.7.90.orig/texindex/texindex Only in texinfo-6.7.90.orig/tp/Texinfo/XS/MiscXS.c Only in texinfo-6.7.90.orig/tp/Texinfo/XS/TestXS.c Only in texinfo-6.7.90.orig/tp/Texinfo/XS/XSParagraph.c Only in texinfo-6.7.90/tp/Texinfo/XS/gnulib/lib/sys So, not only the 'texindex' script was included in the tarball. Also the files MiscXS.c, TestXS.c, XSParagraph.c were included in the tarball, although "make clean" or "make distclean" deletes them. There are two possible ways to fix this: A) Either you consider 'xsubpp' to be a program that can be assumed to be present on the target platform. Then there is no need to distribute MiscXS.c, TestXS.c, XSParagraph.c in the tarball. The Makefile.am should be changed to not distribute these three files. Cf. https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Fine_002dgrained-Distribution-Control.html B) Or you consider that 'xsubpp' is not portable enough. Then you need to create the three files before doing the tarball, and include them in the tarball. Additionally, remove these three files from the CLEANFILES variable. And, per GNU Coding Standards <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Makefile-Basics.html> the three files need to be generated in $(srcdir), not in $(builddir). So modify the .xs.c rule $(XSUBPP) $(XSUBPPARGS) $< > $*.xsc && mv $*.xsc $*.c -> $(XSUBPP) $(XSUBPPARGS) $< > $*.xsc && mv $*.xsc $(srcdir)/$*.c Bruno
