Hello Sergey, sorry for the delay.
* Sergey Poznyakoff wrote on Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:38:04AM CEST: > Sometimes it is necessary to always use certain configure > options during distcheck. For example, in GNU cpio we do > not build `mt' by default, but we'd like to always build > it during distcheck, to ensure that nothing went wrong with > it. That could be achieved if automake used > AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable, along with > DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS. Why can't you use DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS for that? After all, distcheck is more or less a developer target anyway. > How about the attached patch? I'm not fully convinced about the need of this yet, but the patch is lacking a ChangeLog entry, a test, and updates of NEWS and the manual. (You don't need to do this, but it may take me a bit.) Thanks, Ralf > --- a/lib/am/distdir.am > +++ b/lib/am/distdir.am > @@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ distcheck: dist > ?GETTEXT? --with-included-gettext \ > ## Additional flags for configure. Keep this last in the configure > ## invocation so the user can override previous options. > - $(DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) \ > + $(AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) $(DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) \ > && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) \ > && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) dvi \ > && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check \
