bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of "make distcheck"

2015-05-09 Thread James Youngman
Peter, Thank you for your suggestion.Though it didn't work immediately, it did help to solve the problem. Switching to $(LN_S) wasn't as simple as I had hoped since I had included the dblocation.texi file in the distribution, and "make dist" will invoke tar with the -h option and dereference

bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of "make distcheck"

2015-03-25 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, James Youngman wrote: The timestamps look OK to me: ... Perhaps the cause is this rule, though: dblocation.texi: ../locate/dblocation.texi cp ../locate/dblocation.texi $@ This will clearly update the mtime of dblocation.texi. Hi James, indeed. You could use th

bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of "make distcheck"

2015-03-24 Thread James Youngman
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, James Youngman wrote: > >> I'm seeing a failure of "make distcheck" which I think is caused by >> the fact that Automake 1.14.1's rule for .texi.info is trying to >> create a backup directory in a read-only directo

bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of "make distcheck"

2015-03-24 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, James Youngman wrote: I'm seeing a failure of "make distcheck" which I think is caused by the fact that Automake 1.14.1's rule for .texi.info is trying to create a backup directory in a read-only directory: Hi James, the .info file in the read-only directory should not be

bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of "make distcheck"

2015-03-24 Thread James Youngman
I'm seeing a failure of "make distcheck" which I think is caused by the fact that Automake 1.14.1's rule for .texi.info is trying to create a backup directory in a read-only directory: (sorry about what appear to be problems with leading space) $ cat doc/Makefile.in ... .texi.info: $(AM_V_MAKEINF