Re: Problem with 'make distcheck'

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Huber <address@hidden> writes:

>> I know in the past it didn't work to put `$(top_srcdir)' in a path in
>> a _SOURCES variable.  Alexandre, has this changed?
>> I don't think this would cause your problem necessarily, but it is an
>> oddity.

This is definitely the problem.  Changing the `$(top_srcdir)' to `..'
in your example fixes the problem.

I didn't investigate too deeply.  But my guess is that the
$(top_srcdir) causes the dist rule (the one run in the distcheck build
tree) to be confused about where to copy the source file.

Tom