Re: make distcheck

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Bill Moseley wrote:

> Could someone explain what these are telling me -- and more
> importantly, if they are indication of a problem?
>
> address@hidden:~/swish-e$ make distcheck >/dev/null
> libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish 
> /home/moseley/swish-e/swish-e-2.4.3/_inst/lib'
> libtool: install: warning: `libswish-e.la' has not been installed in 
> `/home/moseley/swish-e/swish-e-2.4.3/_inst/lib'
>
>
> BTW - This isn't about libtool, but one odd thing that happens once in a
> while is "make distcheck" will sometimes abort and leave a bunch of
> read-only files so that subsequent "make distcheck" runs fail.  Do other
> people experience the same thing?

Yes, of course.  'make distcheck' is difficult to get going, but is 
really an excellent test and accomplishing it should be an important 
objective.  Most likely the problem you are seeing is that something 
is happening in the wrong order.  For example, maybe the libraries are 
being installed in the wrong order.

Libtool itself has never kept 'make distcheck' from working for me. 
The multitude of other issues such as install/uninstall paths, using 
DESTDIR properly, and getting the test suite to work in all cases have 
been the major chores related to distcheck.

Bob
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