Re: make distcheck failure

[Bruce Korb]

On 03/29/12 16:37, Bruce Korb wrote:
> My tool versions, an edited transcript with the failure message and then a help 
> request.

I modified the top level Makefile thus:

          && test -f xml2ag/Makefile \
          && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) \
          && test -f xml2ag/Makefile \
          && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) dvi \
          && test -f xml2ag/Makefile \
          && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check \
          && test -f xml2ag/Makefile \
          && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) install \
          && test -f xml2ag/Makefile \
          && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) installcheck \
          && test -f xml2ag/Makefile \
          && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) uninstall \
          && test -f xml2ag/Makefile \
          && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) distuninstallcheck_dir="$$dc_install_base" 
\
                distuninstallcheck \
          && test -f xml2ag/Makefile \

and determined that "installcheck" is the step that clobbers xml2ag/Makefile.

Is this a known problem or do I need to investigate further?

Thank you.
$ for f in autoconf automake libtool ; do $f --version | head -1 ; done
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68
automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4

make[2]: Entering directory `/old-home/bkorb/ag/ag/_b/autogen-5.16pre10/_build'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `installcheck-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/old-home/bkorb/ag/ag/_b/autogen-5.16pre10/_build'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/old-home/bkorb/ag/ag/_b/autogen-5.16pre10/_build'
make: *** [distcheck] Error 1