Re: [Monotone-devel] release testing: Debian

[Stephen Leake]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Levitte <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> In message <address@hidden> on Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:29:31 -0500, Stephen 
>> Leake <address@hidden> said:
>>
>> stephen_leake> Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:
>> stephen_leake> 
>> stephen_leake> > I'm starting ...  'make distcheck' on Debian;
>> stephen_leake> 
>> stephen_leake> This is failing with:
>> stephen_leake> 
>> stephen_leake> monotone-ciabot.py does not support --help
>> stephen_leake> monotone-ciabot.py does not support --version
>> stephen_leake> 
>> stephen_leake> Apparently distcheck verifies that installed
>> stephen_leake> executables support standard options.
>>
>> Do you have the following in your Makefile.am?  That prevents what
>> you're experiencing, or should:
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> # Some of the smaller programs do not have --help or --version,
>> # make them exempt of the check for those.  NOTE: use this sparingly!
>> AM_INSTALLCHECK_STD_OPTIONS_EXEMPT = \
>>      extra/bin/mtn-cleanup   extra/mtn-hooks/monotone-ciabot.py      \
>>      extra/mtn-hooks/monotone-mail-notify
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> If you don't have those lines, chances are your workspace isn't quite
>> up to date...
>
> They are there. Looking at the actual Makefile, it seems you are missing
> a space after the .py. It took a while to figure out how to get the
> spaces right; fixed in bc5ba0e6087fcaf021f3e1c613f4fa1d260e1945

make distcheck is now passing on Debian

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