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Re: failed to create dist targets


From: aaragon
Subject: Re: failed to create dist targets
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:49:26 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks! problem was that I had double quoting in AC_INIT.

aa


Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> * aaragon wrote on Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:11:22PM CEST:
>> 
>> So I got all my code up and running and now I want to make a file so I
>> can
>> use my library in another computer. Now, when I try to make dist-zip, I
>> get:
>> 
>> address@hidden/Documents/workspace/cpputils$make dist-all
>> { test ! -d "-cpputils--0.001" || { find "-cpputils--0.001" -type d !
>> -perm
>> -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -fr "-cpputils--0.001"; }; }
>> test -d "-cpputils--0.001" || mkdir "-cpputils--0.001"
>> mkdir: illegal option -- c
>> usage: mkdir [-pv] [-m mode] directory ...
>> make: *** [distdir] Error 64
>> 
>> It's trying to make a directory that starts with a hyphen. Is this a bug?
>> Can I get around this and indicate that I don't want the filename of the
>> directory to start with a hyphen?
> 
> You can name the package cpputils rather than -cpputils- (change the
> first argument of AC_INIT in configure.ac) or override the tarname only
> (add a fourth argument to AC_INIT).
> See "info Autoconf 'Initializing configure'".
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
> 
> 
> 
> 

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