Re: sysconf_DATA v. dist_sysconf_DATA

[David Everly]

On 11/9/06, Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:46:23PM -0700, David Everly wrote:
> > I put together a test case before sending my email, the only line in
> > the one Makefile.am is the one I gave containing test.txt.
>
> well, I created configure.ac and Makefile.am:
> $ cat configure.ac
> AC_INIT([this], [1.0], address@hidden)
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
> AC_OUTPUT
> $ cat Makefile.am
> sysconf_DATA = $(top_srcdir)/test.txt
> $
>
> Then I run:
>
> autoreconf -i
> ./configure
> make distcheck

This is almost identical to what I tried.

> and the distcheck failed with the expected message:
>
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../test.txt', needed by `all-am'.  Stop.
>
> I used recent CVS build of Autoconf, and a CVS version of Automake
> which is slightly older than 1.10.

Ok, so there must be something that is better about CVS because your
test also does not fail for me.