Re: Failure in make dist

[Jason Curl]

On 01/05/2013 12:55, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Trying again...

> [dropping the autoconf list, since this is in all likelihood an automake issue]
>
> On 04/27/2013 08:53 PM, Jason Curl wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm running autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.11.6 on Lubuntu12.10 and when I run 
> > distmake for my
> > project, it aborts with the error:
> >
> > > address@hidden:~/winlib/build/Linux$ make dist
> > > if test -d "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427"; then find "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427" -type d ! -perm -200 
> > > -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -rf "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427" || { sleep 5 && rm -rf 
> > > "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427"; }; else :; fi
> > > test -d "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427" || mkdir 
> > > "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427"
> > >   (cd libwin && make  top_distdir=../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427 
> > > distdir=../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427/libwin \
> > >       am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: distdir)
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin'
> > >   (cd src && make  top_distdir=../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427 
> > > distdir=../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427/libwin/src \
> > >       am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: distdir)
> > > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin/src'
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin/src'
> > >   (cd test && make  top_distdir=../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427 
> > > distdir=../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427/libwin/test \
> > >       am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: distdir)
> > > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin/test'
> > > cp: cannot create regular file 
> > > `../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427/libwin/test/Makefile.am': No such file 
> > > or directory
> > > make[2]: *** [distdir] Error 1
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin/test'
> > > make[1]: *** [distdir] Error 1
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin'
> > > make: *** [distdir] Error 1
> >
> > when debugging, the failure appears that the directory "test" isn't
> > created under winproglib-*/libwin.
> >
> > When run configure, make, make dist on Cygwin or Ubuntu 11.10, then this
> > error doesn't occur, indicating to me probably a failure of Lubuntu 12.10.
> > Note, I did *not* run autoreconf when rerunning on Cygwin.
> >
> > But I don't know how to debug this further. I've added outputs to the
> > generated Makefile, but I don't see where these directories should be
> > created first.
> >
> > when running autoreconf on Cygwin, with autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.12.5
> > I get the same errors on Lubuntu 12.10. It doesn't matter if I use bash,
> > tcsh or dash (the default).
> We need more information to try to understand the issue.  Please post the
> contents of your Makefile.am, configure.ac, and other files you think might
> be useful.
Please find the code tarball attached. I've created my own .m4 files for 
generating version information based on tags from SVN or CVS via a perl 
script, so if the project isn't in SVN, you need the also attached 
"version.txt" file in the code directory (which is automatically 
generated and added to the distribution at make dist).

The project is intended as a template for creating OS cross compiles 
with release support based on one of two RCS's. Documentation is 
missing, but it can be used BSD/(L)GPL v2.

I don't believe my Perl or my m4's to have an influence, as there's no 
hooks for make dist, and the generated scripts on Lubuntu 12.10 work 
fine on Cygwin, but don't work on Lubuntu 12.10. Same goes if I run 
autoreconf on Cygwin. Version info above, should be current.

Thanks in advance for your support.

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