Re: Failure in make dist

[Stefano Lattarini]

[dropping the autoconf list, since this is in all likelihood an automake issue]

On 04/27/2013 08:53 PM, Jason Curl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.11.6 on Lubuntu12.10 and when I run 
> distmake for my
> project, it aborts with the error:
> 
>> address@hidden:~/winlib/build/Linux$ make dist
>> if test -d "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427"; then find 
>> "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427" -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} 
>> ';' && rm -rf "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427" || { sleep 5 && rm -rf 
>> "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427"; }; else :; fi
>> test -d "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427" || mkdir 
>> "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427"
>>  (cd libwin && make  top_distdir=../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427 
>> distdir=../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427/libwin \
>>      am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: 
>> distdir)
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin'
>>  (cd src && make  top_distdir=../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427 
>> distdir=../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427/libwin/src \
>>      am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: 
>> distdir)
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin/src'
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin/src'
>>  (cd test && make  top_distdir=../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427 
>> distdir=../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427/libwin/test \
>>      am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: 
>> distdir)
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin/test'
>> cp: cannot create regular file 
>> `../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427/libwin/test/Makefile.am': No such 
>> file or directory
>> make[2]: *** [distdir] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin/test'
>> make[1]: *** [distdir] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin'
>> make: *** [distdir] Error 1
> 
> when debugging, the failure appears that the directory "test" isn't
>created under winproglib-*/libwin.
> 
> When run configure, make, make dist on Cygwin or Ubuntu 11.10, then this
> error doesn't occur, indicating to me probably a failure of Lubuntu 12.10.
> Note, I did *not* run autoreconf when rerunning on Cygwin.
> 
> But I don't know how to debug this further. I've added outputs to the
> generated Makefile, but I don't see where these directories should be
> created first.
> 
> when running autoreconf on Cygwin, with autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.12.5
> I get the same errors on Lubuntu 12.10. It doesn't matter if I use bash,
> tcsh or dash (the default).
> 
We need more information to try to understand the issue.  Please post the
contents of your Makefile.am, configure.ac, and other files you think might
be useful.

Regards,
  Stefano