Package: automake1.8 Version: 1.8.5-3 Severity: important If you have a .texi target in your project, "make distcheck" will try to build $(srcdir)/stamp-vti. It does this after earlier rules have made the source directory read-only. However, the rule tries to create $(srcdir)/stamp-vti. This example is from the findutils-4.2.18 distribution (but using automake1.8 to 'autoreconf -i' because the findutils distribution is normally not built with automake 1.8):-
$(srcdir)/stamp-vti: find.texi $(top_srcdir)/configure @(dir=.; test -f ./find.texi || dir=$(srcdir); \ set `$(SHELL) $(srcdir)/mdate-sh $$dir/find.texi`; \ echo "@set UPDATED $$1 $$2 $$3"; \ echo "@set UPDATED-MONTH $$2 $$3"; \ echo "@set EDITION $(VERSION)"; \ echo "@set VERSION $(VERSION)") > vti.tmp @cmp -s vti.tmp $(srcdir)/version.texi \ || (echo "Updating $(srcdir)/version.texi"; \ cp vti.tmp $(srcdir)/version.texi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -f vti.tmp @cp $(srcdir)/version.texi $@ The resulting error message is: The resulting error message is: The resulting error message is: [ ... ] chmod +x updatedb make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/cvs/testgnulib/compile/findutils-4.2.19-CVS/_build/locate' make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/cvs/testgnulib/compile/findutils-4.2.19-CVS/_build/locate' Making all in doc make[3]: Entering directory `/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/cvs/testgnulib/compile/findutils-4.2.19-CVS/_build/doc' cp: cannot create regular file `../../doc/stamp-vti': Permission denied make[3]: *** [../../doc/stamp-vti] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/james/source/GNU/findutils/cvs/testgnulib/compile/findutils-4.2.19-CVS/_build/doc' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10 Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages automake1.8 depends on: ii autoconf 2.59a-3 automatic configure script builder ii autotools-dev 20041130.2 Update infrastructure for config.{ -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]