Re: can 'make', can 'make dist', but can't 'make distcheck'

[David Fang]

> ./configure \
> --prefix=$HOME/jmf/testes/localroot/usr/ \
> CPPFLAGS="-DHPUX -DSUN -DLINUX -I/usr/include/libxml2/ \
> -I/home/jmf/tibcu/tibrv/include/"
>
> all goes well. make is successfull and builds my libs correctly !
>
> make dist also creates the tar.gz
>
> but make distcheck complains. this is my distcheck command:
> -----------------------------------------
> make distcheck \
> CPPFLAGS="-DHPUX -DSUN -DLINUX -I/usr/include/libxml2/ \
> -I/home/jmf/tibcu/tibrv/include/"
> ---------------------------------------

You pass configure parameters to distcheck with:

make DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="configure_params..." distcheck

Quotes recommended to keep shell from splitting up params.

These errors are probably fallout from not finding some headers in those 
CPPFLAGS paths, I'm guessing.

> this is how it complaints
> ---------------------------------------
> ../../../c/src/IFXDoc.c: In function 'IFXDoc_addNullU64Array':
> ../../../c/src/IFXDoc.c:10258: warning: this decimal constant is
> unsigned only in ISO C90
> ../../../c/src/IFXDoc.c:10258: warning: integer constant is too large
> for 'long' type
>
> ../../../c/src/IFXDoc.c: In function
> 'IFXINTERNAL_IFXDoc_xml_addArrayField2XML':
> ../../../c/src/IFXDoc.c:18747: warning: assignment makes pointer from
> integer without a cast
>
> make[3]: *** [IFXDoc.lo] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/jmf/ifxlib/libifxlib-7.8.9/_build/c/src'
>
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> ---------------------------------------
>
> just guessing ? could make distcheck be using something like a very
> demanding, 'no cast warnings allowed' or some '-Werror' compiler flag ?

distcheck doesn't add anything to your flags.

Sometimes it helps to log distcheck to a file for debugging:
$ make distcheck 2>&1 tee distcheck.log

HTH.

Fang



David Fang
Computer Systems Laboratory
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cornell University
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/
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