Re: ERROR: distcleancheck can only run from a VPATH build

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> 
> >>> "David" == David Kirkby <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  David> Hi,
>  David> I have written a program 'atlc'
>  David> http://atlc.sourceforge.net/
>  David> which get distributed with a lot of .bmp example files. If I run
> 
>  David> automake ; autoconf ; configure ; make distclean ; configure ; make
>  David> distcheck
> 
>  David> The 'make distcheck' always fails, with the error message:
> 
>  David> ERROR: distcleancheck can only run from a VPATH build
> 
> There is no such message in your output.  If there were, `make'
> would have stopped immediately.

That message is there!! If you look at the output I posted, you will see that 
the message 'ERROR: distcleancheck can only run from a VPATH build' was 
produced, but 'make' carried on. I had not added any options to force 'make' to 
continue after errors. 

>  David> However, those files are in 'EXTRA_DIST' so I would have thought the
>  David> fact they are distributed, automake would not try to remove them with
>  David> 'make distcheck' - is that right ??
> 
> This is right.  So what's wrong here is that your *distributed* files
> end up in your *build directory*.  You'll have to find out why.

I know the anser to that one, but I'm not sure how to avoid the problem. 

I wanted to install all the distributed files, in addition to some that I made 
from those distributed file. If I had a distributed file examples/foo.bmp, I 
want to install examples/foo.bmp, in addition to files examples/foo.E.bmp, 
examples/foo.V.bmp, examples/foo.U.bmp, where the latter files are made during 
the 'make check' process.

What I had done was to copy foo.bmp from the source directory to the build 
directory, then build foo.E.bmp, foo.V.bmp, foo.U.bmp in the build directory. I 
was then hoping that a 'make install' would install the lot (distributed + 
built) from the build directory. From what you are saying, it seems this was 
the wrong approach to take. 


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