Preparing for a grep release, I hit a "make distcheck" failure that led me into this gnulib module. There was a gnulib-tests/.deps/test-verify.Tpo file that was left behind even after "make clean".
Since the test-verify.sh script invokes the .c.o rule that creates a .Tpo file, but leaves that file behind upon failure, I added this little fix-up. I'm sure we could also fix this by changing automake, but I don't want to do that just yet.
From cd6a45292cdb7b3c4b628f1cb0f199a02140ea7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 21:39:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] verify-tests: also remove stray test-verify.Tpo * modules/verify-tests (Makefile.am): Arrange for "make clean" to remove the test-verify.Tpo file that is left behind by the automake-generated rule upon compilation failure. Otherwise, that .Tpo file would cause a failed "make distcheck" at least for grep. --- ChangeLog | 9 +++++++++ modules/verify-tests | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 77acfcf..d353609 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +2016-02-02 Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com> + + verify-tests: also remove stray test-verify.Tpo + * modules/verify-tests (Makefile.am): Arrange for "make clean" + to remove the test-verify.Tpo file that is left behind by + the automake-generated rule upon compilation failure. + Otherwise, that .Tpo file would cause a failed "make distcheck" + at least for grep. + 2016-02-02 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> std-gnu11: new module diff --git a/modules/verify-tests b/modules/verify-tests index 939a1ce..8039030 100644 --- a/modules/verify-tests +++ b/modules/verify-tests @@ -11,3 +11,8 @@ Makefile.am: TESTS_ENVIRONMENT += MAKE='$(MAKE)' TESTS += test-verify test-verify.sh check_PROGRAMS += test-verify + +# This test expects compilation of test-verify.c to fail, and +# each time it fails, the makefile rule does not perform the usual +# "mv -f $name.Tpo $name.po, so tell make clean to remove that file. +MOSTLYCLEANFILES += .deps/test-verify.Tpo -- 2.5.0
