Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> [ adding automake-patches ]
>
> * Simon Josefsson wrote on Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:56:02PM CEST:
>
>>Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>>Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The fix is to
>>>>  find FOOPKG-x.y.z -exec chmod u+rwx \{\} \; && rm -rf FOOPKG-x.y.z
>
>
>>I was just about to suggest that the above command should be added as
>>a documented short-cut...
>>
>>make distcheck-clean
>
>
> IMHO a nice suggestion, except I think distdir-clean fits better.
> OK to install the patch below?

May I encourage you to use distcheck-clean?  There is less to remember.
"distdir" may be the directory that gets cleaned up, but the problem
stems essentially entirely from a "make distcheck" failure, so the
cleanup rule should be named after that failing rule.  That, or alias
them.  :)  Thanks - Bruce


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