Jim Meyering wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > ... >> No problem. >> Next step, "make distcheck". First failure is because inclusion of >> version.h fails in the non-srcdir build: > ... >> This fixes it: >> >> diff --git a/src/local.mk b/src/local.mk > > FYI, here's another make distcheck problem, > in case someone else can get to it before I do > (it'll soon be dinner time here): > > make[2]: Entering directory > `/h/j/w/co/cu/coreutils-8.19.68-ea804-dirty/_build' > CC src/uname-arch.o > CC src/hostname.o > CCLD src/arch > CCLD src/hostname > GEN man/arch.1 > GEN man/hostname.1 > mkdir: cannot create directory 'man/arch.td': No such file or directory > make[2]: *** [man/arch.1] Error 1 > make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > mkdir: cannot create directory 'man/hostname.td': No such file or directory > make[2]: *** [man/hostname.1] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/h/j/w/co/cu/coreutils-8.19.68-ea804-dirty/_build' > make[1]: *** [dist] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/h/j/w/co/cu/coreutils-8.19.68-ea804-dirty/_build' > make: *** [distcheck] Error 1
The fix for this is to create man and src directories: diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 8c41d62..5dc4b0a 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -464,6 +464,11 @@ AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18.1]) # For a test of uniq: it uses the $LOCALE_FR envvar. gt_LOCALE_FR +# Now that configure no longer creates src/ or man/, create them here. +# Doing it this way is more maintainable that adding to each individual +# Makefile rule that creates a file in one of those sub-directories. +$MKDIR_P man src + AC_CONFIG_FILES( Makefile lib/Makefile
