Hello, In the Automake manual, §14.4 "Checking the Distribution"
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Checking-the-Distribution claims that make distcheck will verify that make uninstall works correctly. The relevant text is quoted here: > distcheck also checks that the uninstall rule works properly, both for > ordinary and DESTDIR builds. It does this by invoking ‘make uninstall’, > and then it checks the install tree to see if any files are left over. > This check will make sure that you correctly coded your > uninstall-related rules. However, this does not seem to be the case. I realized that I had completely forgotten to write an uninstall-local rule to go with my install-data-local rule, yet distcheck remained completely silent on the matter. I'm using autoconf-2.68 and automake-1.11.1. The issue also occurs with latest automake git at the time of writing. Here's an example: % cat >Makefile.am <<'EOF' dist_data_DATA = foo EXTRA_DIST = bar install-data-local: $(MKDIR_P) '$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)' cp '$(srcdir)/bar' '$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/bar' EOF % cat >configure.ac <<'EOF' AC_INIT([test], [1.0]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) AC_OUTPUT EOF % cat >foo <<'EOF' foo EOF % cat >bar <<'EOF' bar EOF A quick test reveals that the uninstall target of my Makefile is definitely broken: % ./configure --prefix=$PWD/inst % make install % find inst -type f inst/share/foo inst/share/bar % make uninstall % find inst -type f inst/share/bar As expected, "bar" is erroneously left in the install tree. However, when we go to run make distcheck: % make distcheck [...] ========================================== test-1.0 archives ready for distribution: test-1.0.tar.gz ========================================== Based on the quoted paragraph in the manual, I had expected distcheck to fail. Cheers, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
