Re: distcheck error for .Plo files

[Bruno Haible]

Mohammad Akhlaghi wrote:
> I just cloned the most recent commit of Gnulib (549fce0183f02d) to 
> bootstrap Gnuastro. However, when running 'make distcheck', I came 
> across the following error (in P.S.) for some remaining files after 
> 'distclean'.
> 
> In Gnuastro, all the files under 'bootstrapped/' are managed by Gnulib, 
> so I am posting it here.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mohammad
> 
> P.S.
> 
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/path/to/build/dir/_build/sub'
> rm -f config.status config.cache config.log configure.lineno 
> config.status.lineno
> rm -f Makefile
> ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean:
> ./bootstrapped/lib/.deps/regex.Plo
> ./bootstrapped/lib/.deps/vasnprintf.Plo
> ./bootstrapped/lib/.deps/printf-parse.Plo
> ./bootstrapped/lib/.deps/getopt.Plo
> ./bootstrapped/lib/.deps/printf-args.Plo
> ./bootstrapped/lib/.deps/chdir-long.Plo
> ./bootstrapped/lib/.deps/fcntl.Plo
> ./bootstrapped/lib/.deps/mbrtowc.Plo
> ./bootstrapped/lib/.deps/getopt1.Plo
> ./bootstrapped/lib/.deps/asnprintf.Plo
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:2564: distcleancheck] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/path/to/build/dir/_build/sub'

Interesting. I got two similar reports, regarding GNU m4 and GNU poke,
from the continuous integration. Your report at least tells me that
the cause does not lie in the Gitlab infrastructure.

I'm investigating...

Bruno