Re: use /var/tmp for distcheck installation test

2014-08-12 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > Setting TMPDIR environment variable might help. And indeed it does, thanks. Cheers Adam

Re: use /var/tmp for distcheck installation test

2014-08-12 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2014-08-12 15:34 -0500, Adam Mercer wrote: > One machine I use for testing has /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem and the > distcheck process is failing during the install check as the /tmp > filesystem is not big enough. Is there a way to get distcheck to use > another temporary filesystem for testing,

Re: *CLEANFILES dependency

2014-08-12 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2014-08-12 22:30 +0300, fr33domlover wrote: > This is my first message on this list. I'm doing a lot of autotools related > work recently so (depending on my level of success) it may be the first of > many :-) > > I read in the Automake manual (the one at www.gnu.org) about CLEANFILES, > DISTCL

make install-dirPRIMARY

2014-08-12 Thread fr33domlover
Hello, I'm writing a Makefile.am with a custom piece for building, distributing and installing Doxygen-generated documentation. All the generated files are used as values for the special-scheme variables, e.g. 'dist_reference_DATA = index.html'. Installation targets are automatically generated,

*CLEANFILES dependency

2014-08-12 Thread fr33domlover
Hello, This is my first message on this list. I'm doing a lot of autotools related work recently so (depending on my level of success) it may be the first of many :-) I read in the Automake manual (the one at www.gnu.org) about CLEANFILES, DISTCLEANFILES and so on. One thing I noticed after goin

Guide on updating autofoo

2014-08-12 Thread Wookey
As porting work (for arm64) recently I have done a lot of fixing up packages to run autoreconf on build as this is the only way to ensure that their config.sub/guess and libtool files are up to date for architectures released since the software last had it's auto* files updated. In general this wo

use /var/tmp for distcheck installation test

2014-08-12 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi One machine I use for testing has /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem and the distcheck process is failing during the install check as the /tmp filesystem is not big enough. Is there a way to get distcheck to use another temporary filesystem for testing, such as /var/tmp? Cheers Adam