hi, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701638 has the details. """ Since Automake 1.13 (which is entering many distributions), tests are executed in parallel by default. For tests run in parallel, Automake grabs the output and results of the test and outputs it to two new files, with a .log and .trs extension. It creates the filenames based on the test name, which in the case of GTKDOC_CHECK is the absolute path to the gtkdoc-check binary. This is generally $(prefix)/bin and not writable by the user. This leads to errors when running the gtk-doc check when using Automake 1.13 or above: fatal: making test-suite.log: failed to create /some-path/bin/gtkdoc-check.trs fatal: making test-suite.log: failed to create /some-path/bin/gtkdoc-check.log """ We have a generic sanity check that we run over the data files in the project. The data files are passed via TESTS_ENVIRONMENT: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk-doc/tree/examples/Makefile.am#n99
We'll probably go with the hack proposed in the patch. Please let us know it there is a better way to handle this. Stefan
