Re: make dist failure

[Peter Rosin]

Den 2010-06-09 07:14 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
> * Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 10:40:55PM CEST:
> > Den 2010-06-08 17:18 skrev Gary V. Vaughan:
> > > On 8 Jun 2010, at 19:33, Peter Rosin wrote:
> > > > I would also like to know what "make config/mdate-sh" is supposed to
> > > > accomplish, but that is a separate issue.
> > >
> > > Well, the only thing the testsuite does is call `make dist', so make has
> > > decided that it needs mdate-sh before it will continue.  The test is
> > > essentially making a copy of the libltdl directory with libtoolize
> > > and trying to build it, so I don't understand where that dependecy
> > > came from.  What does the Makefile.in in the test directory contain?
> > > (it should be a direct copy of $top_srcdir/libltdl/Makefile.in).
> >
> > The two files $top_srcdir/libltdl/Makefile.in and
> > $top_builddir/tests/testsuite.dir/077/Makefile.in are exact copies
> > according to cmp(1). I'm attaching one of them...
> >
> > touch(1)ing config/mdate-sh reveals that 'make dist' also tries to
> > rebuild config/texinfo.tex and touch(1)ing that satisfies 'make dist'
> > on my system.
> >
> > mdate-sh and texinfo.tex are present in $top_srcdir/libltdl/config
>
> I would like to see more of the story here.  If this is still
> reproducible for you, post the output of
>    make check-local TESTSUITEFLAGS='-v -d -x 77'

It is very reproducible, even on a frech clone.

> You might first have to check whether your source tree was corrupted in
> the meantime.  The "softlinked libltdl" tests are kind of problematic in
> that, if they have a bug, or your make implementation isn't up to the
> task, the tests might change files from the source tree (and if only
> their time stamps).  Which make are you using?

I'm using GNU make:

$ make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i686-pc-cygwin

After doing
$ reconfdirs='. libltdl' ./bootstrap
on a fresh clone of the master branch I still have this in
$top_srcdir/config/Makefile.in:

DIST_COMMON = README $(am__configure_deps) $(am__include_HEADERS_DIST) \
        $(am__ltdlinclude_HEADERS_DIST) $(srcdir)/Makefile.am \
        $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(srcdir)/config-h.in \
        $(top_srcdir)/configure COPYING.LIB argz.c config/compile \
        config/config.guess config/config.sub config/depcomp \
        config/install-sh config/ltmain.sh config/mdate-sh \
        config/missing config/texinfo.tex lt__dirent.c lt__strl.c

The bootstrap has these lines in its output:

autoreconf-2.65: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf-2.65: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf-2.65: running: aclocal --force -I libltdl/m4
autoreconf-2.65: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf-2.65: running: 
/home/peda/libtool/git/testing/libltdl/config/libtoolize --copy --force --ltdl
libtoolize: Bootstrap detected, no files installed.
autoreconf-2.65: running: /usr/bin/autoconf-2.65 --force
autoreconf-2.65: running: /usr/bin/autoheader-2.65 --force
autoreconf-2.65: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
configure.ac:175: installing `libltdl/config/compile'
configure.ac:181: installing `libltdl/config/config.guess'
configure.ac:181: installing `libltdl/config/config.sub'
configure.ac:125: installing `libltdl/config/install-sh'
configure.ac:125: installing `libltdl/config/missing'
Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
Makefile.am: installing `libltdl/config/depcomp'
Makefile.am:321: installing `libltdl/config/mdate-sh'
Makefile.am:321: installing `libltdl/config/texinfo.tex'
autoreconf-2.65: Leaving directory `.'


> Can you look if installcheck (same args as above) gives a similar
> problem?  make install should be taking care of the timestamps for
> installed files (but make all should do so for the uninstalled ones,
> too ...)

I'm not sure what you mean here, but if I do "make installcheck"
in the .../testsuite.dir/077 directory after the failure, is says:
make: Nothing to be done for `installcheck'.

> One of the problems here I think is that automake will pick up files
> named mdate-sh and texinfo.tex into EXTRA_DIST whenever they exist
> in the aux directory.  This is a problem for libltdl which is supposed
> to have a stand-alone Makefile.{inc,am,in} set.  Preventing automake
> reruns is what's usually needed here.

I'm attaching the output from all commands I did which includes the
requested testsuite log, IIUC. Note that the original report was from
the pr-msvc-support branch, which includes some more tests, so the
test has number 75 on the fresh clone.

Cheers,
Peter

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