Jeff Squyres wrote: > Ugh. Integrating the "make dist" process with this stuff is > surprisingly difficult. > > I'm still trying to fix "make dist" (and distcheck) for VPATH builds. > I may admit defeat on this, and only allow "make dist" to work in > non-VPATH builds (the contrib/dist/make_dist_tarball script only works > in non-VPATH builds; it checks right up near the top). Would that be > horrible if I didn't allow non-VPATH dist/distcheck?
I always build outside of the source tree for development/testing. But it's ok to forbid it for make dist/distcheck. > Additionally, I found a tachyon (ha!) in utils/Makefile.am in terms of > "make dist": the man pages depend on the executables (because the man > pages are generated via "help2man"). This is a problem if you: > > svn co ... > ./autogen.sh > ./configure > make dist > > The dist will fail because the executables are built, but then fail > because libhwloc.la does not exist. Oh now I understand this failure :) Brice
