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Dave Cottlehuber commented on COUCHDB-1784:
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This was OSX, and licence.skip is not found if only ./bootstrap is run from a
clean checkout.
```
# clean up your master completely
git reset --hard
git clean -fdx
./bootstrap
COUCHDIR=`pwd -P`
mkdir /tmp/1784
cd /tmp/1784
COUCHDIR/configure --prefix=/tmp/1784/install
make && make distcheck
```
returns:
grep -rL 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0' * \
| grep --include= -vEf license.skip; \
test "$?" -eq 1
grep: license.skip: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [distcheck-hook] Error 1
make: *** [distcheck] Error 1
This is on OSX but I'd expect the same result elsewhere, as license.skip
clearly won't be in the /tmp/1784 dir.
> enable distcheck for VPATH builds
> ---------------------------------
>
> Key: COUCHDB-1784
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1784
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Build System
> Reporter: Dave Cottlehuber
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.3.1
>
> Attachments: 0001-vpath-and-license.skip.patch
>
>
> VPATH doesn't work for distcheck due to license.skip being an absolute path.
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