Re: distcheck rule

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bob,

* Bob Rossi wrote on Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:12:50PM CEST:
> 
> I recently found out about 'make distcheck' and wanted to run before I
> released any more versions of cgdb.
[...]
> However, I've run into this problem, and don't immediately understand
> what it is testing or how to fix it. Here is the error,

Which Automake version was used (I can only infer 1.9.x)?  System this
happens on?  URL for a tarball to try out?  (I think seeing the error in
front of my eyes helps me remember more quickly than digging the
archives; also I think I need to see the whole output of `distcheck'.)

The read-only stuff is to test whether a VPATH build from a read-only
medium works; but some missing permission bits may have propagated
incorrectly in your case.

Hmm.  Looking at your SVN sources, do things work if you remove this
line from the toplevel Makefile.am (guessing right now)?
  EXTRA_DIST = config

It should not be necessary AFAICS: automake takes care of the files it
puts in there and those that aclocal uses.

>   make[2]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall-am'.
>   make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/bob/rcs/svn/cgdb/trunk/build/cgdb-20070402/_build'
>   make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/bob/rcs/svn/cgdb/trunk/build/cgdb-20070402/_build'
>   make[1]: Entering directory 
> `/home/bob/rcs/svn/cgdb/trunk/build/cgdb-20070402/_build'
>   make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/bob/rcs/svn/cgdb/trunk/build/cgdb-20070402/_build'
>   make[1]: Entering directory 
> `/home/bob/rcs/svn/cgdb/trunk/build/cgdb-20070402/_build'
>   { test ! -d cgdb-20070402 || { find cgdb-20070402 -type d ! -perm -200 
> -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -fr cgdb-20070402; }; }
>   mkdir cgdb-20070402
>   mkdir -p -- cgdb-20070402/config
>   cp: cannot create regular file 
> `cgdb-20070402/config/readline_check_version.m4': Permission denied
[...]
>   make[1]: *** [distdir] Error 1
>   make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/bob/rcs/svn/cgdb/trunk/build/cgdb-20070402/_build'
>   make: *** [distcheck] Error 2

Cheers,
Ralf