Re: simple distcheck fails

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Friday 2008-11-28 20:05, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> 14:04 yaguchi:../test/obj > make distcheck V=2
>> [...]
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/dev/shm/test/obj/foo-0/_build'
>> depbase=`echo foo.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
>>         gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"foo\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"foo\"
>> -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"0\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"foo\ 0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\"
>> -DPACKAGE=\"foo\" -DVERSION=\"0\" -I. -I..     -g -O2 -MT foo.o -MD -MP -MF
>> -$depbase.Tpo -c -o foo.o ../foo.c &&\
>>         mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
>> ../foo.c:1:17: error: foo.h: No such file or directory
>> make[1]: *** [foo.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/dev/shm/test/obj/foo-0/_build'
>> make: *** [distcheck] Error 2
>> 
>> That is because it uses "/dev/shm/test/obj/foo-0/_build/../.." as
>> $srcdir (which however is the $builddir) instead of
>> "/dev/shm/test/obj/foo-0/_build/.."
>
>This seems to be a misunderstanding.  What distcheck does here is the
>following:
>- first create a distribution tarball,
>- then, extract this tarball into a subdirectory foo-0/,
>- then, configure the sources in that subdirectory, in a VPATH setup,
>  i.e., using a relative build directory named _build/.
>
>The most likely reason for the failure is that foo.h is not packaged.

Ah that's it. Sigh, I so really prefer doing a
  git-archive HEAD | tar -C /tmp/whereever -xf- &&
  run autogen.sh in whereever &&
  pack up the stuff
over distcheck atm :-P

Jan