bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of make distcheck

2015-03-24 Thread James Youngman
I'm seeing a failure of make distcheck which I think is caused by the fact that Automake 1.14.1's rule for .texi.info is trying to create a backup directory in a read-only directory: (sorry about what appear to be problems with leading space) $ cat doc/Makefile.in ... .texi.info:

bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of make distcheck

2015-03-24 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, James Youngman wrote: I'm seeing a failure of make distcheck which I think is caused by the fact that Automake 1.14.1's rule for .texi.info is trying to create a backup directory in a read-only directory: Hi James, the .info file in the read-only directory should not be

bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of make distcheck

2015-03-24 Thread James Youngman
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Peter Breitenlohner p...@mppmu.mpg.de wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, James Youngman wrote: I'm seeing a failure of make distcheck which I think is caused by the fact that Automake 1.14.1's rule for .texi.info is trying to create a backup directory in a read-only