Re: make dist failure with directory symlink

[Martin Frydl]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > > > "Martin" == Martin Frydl <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
>  Martin> I have a special rule in my Makefile.am which creates symlink to
>  Martin> one of source directories when building to different directory tree
>  Martin> (using VPATH). I have this directory also in EXTRA_DIST.
>
> Could you show an example of such a setup?  I don't understand
> why you EXTRA_DIST a directory you don't want to distribute.

I've attached an example. Just run test.sh - it will run 
automake/autoconf for setup, create build directory, run configure in 
it, compile and then try to run make dist. It should fail with error:

cp: cannot overwrite directory `make-dist-test-0.1/files' with non-directory

I want the directory to be distributed. It contains many test files used 
by program being built and the test program expects them in directory 
where it lies. Therefore I create a symlink to that directory in sources.

> It's important that we copy symlinked files and I tend to think
> we should not handle directory differently.

I agree, the problem is that cp does not like copying of symlink onto a 
directory.

  Martin

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