Re: make dist-gzip fails

[Bruce Korb]

Hi Aaron,

Aaron wrote:

> Hey Bruce,
>
> One more bug in pre12...
>
> Running 'make dist-gzip' or any other 'dist-*' causes a blow up in the
> libopts tear off.  The problem is that EXTRA_DIST in the Makefile.am
> includes the directory 'autoopts' which I think it confuses into
> beliving it should build a binary of the same name using autoopts.c
>  
Since there is no "autoopts_PROGRAM" variable, this would be an automake bug
and an autogen problem.  I guess I can accommodate by expanding the contents
of the directory.  I'm constructing the "Makefile.am" on the fly, after all.  :)

> I see the problem in mklibsrc.sh, but I don't want to submit a fix,
> since it might have evil effects (like including your source control
> subdirs if you're using CVS or subversion).  It shouldn't be a
> difficult fix though.
>  
I'm still using CVS.  The fix is to fully enumerate the EXTRA_DIST.

Thank you!  Regards, Bruce