Derek Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using a stock automake 1.9.5 and I am not seeing the problem you > describe.
GNU cpio CVS tree is a working sample. What happens is this: 1. Makefile.am section in module/getdate contains: BUILT_SOURCES += getdate.c MAINTAINERCLEANFILES += getdate.c EXTRA_DIST += getdate.c Then, everything works fine. 2. When Makefile.am section contains: BUILT_SOURCES += getdate.c MAINTAINERCLEANFILES += getdate.c then, bootstrap and make work OK. However, after `make dist' the file getdate.c does not get into the distribution tarball: tar tf cpio-2.6.90.tar.gz '*/getdate.*' cpio-2.6.90/m4/getdate.m4 cpio-2.6.90/lib/getdate.h cpio-2.6.90/lib/getdate.y And `make distcheck' fails: ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean: ./lib/getdate.c That's why EXTRA_DIST is needed. 3. Finally, with empty Makefile.am section bootstrap fails: autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing configure.ac:122: required file `lib/getdate.c' not found autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 The reason for this particular failure seems to be explained in autom4te.cache/traces.0: m4trace:configure.ac:46: -1- gl_GETDATE m4trace:configure.ac:46: -1- AC_LIBSOURCE([getdate.h]) m4trace:configure.ac:46: -1- AC_LIBSOURCE([getdate.y]) m4trace:configure.ac:46: -1- AC_LIBSOURCE([getdate.c]) Apparently, the last AC_LIBSOURCE makes automake to believe that the file getdate.c must be present in lib/. That's why BUILT_SOURCES is needed. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
