Re: subproject.at distcheck failure

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf,

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> The first three subproject.at tests fail within `make distcheck':
>
> - during the `check' (not installcheck!) phase within distcheck, the
>   source tree is readonly,
> - libtoolize either symlinks or copies with kept permissions the
>   ltdl files (use of tar!),
> - `autoreconf --force', seeing the sub/ltdl subproject, enters the
>   sub/ltdl directory, in there, aclocal tries to write
>   sub/ltdl/aclocal.m4 (without removing it first).  If we remove the
>   `--force', still autoconf fails, because it tries to write to
>   `sub/ltdl/configure'.

AARGH!

> I'm not quite sure about the best way to handle this.  We could
> replace autoreconf with calling aclocal, automake, and autoconf by
> hand to prevent recursing.  Proposed patch below ok?

Sure.  Looks good to me.

>         * tests/testsuite.at (LT_AT_AUTOMAKE): New macro.
>         * tests/subproject.at: Use it.  Do not call `autoreconf' in
>         tests, since it will try to reconfigure `sub/ltdl', which
>         breaks `make check' during `distcheck' because of a readonly
>         source tree.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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