Re: simple distcheck fails

[Jan Engelhardt]

Hi Ralf,

On Friday 2008-11-28 06:25, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:12:24PM CET:
>> 
>> ---<8--- Makefile.am
>> AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign subdir-objects
>> noinst_DATA = foo.txt
>
>>      make distcheck
>
>>      make[1]: Entering directory `/dev/shm/t/obj/foo-0/_build'
>>      make[1]: *** No rule to make target `foo.txt', needed by `all-am'.  
>>      Stop.
>
>Try using dist_noinst_DATA instead, so that foo.txt is added to the
>tarball.

That works. Now I am hitting the following problem —
`make distcheck` from an obj dir fails, e.g.

14:04 yaguchi:/dev/shm/test > l
total 256
drwxr-xr-x 2 jengelh users    260 Nov 28 14:04 .
drwxrwxrwt 4 root    root      80 Nov 28 14:01 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 jengelh users     65 Nov 28 14:01 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r-- 1 jengelh users  19388 Nov 28 14:03 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 jengelh users  32266 Nov 28 14:03 aclocal.m4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jengelh users     52 Nov 28 14:02 autogen.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jengelh users 130473 Nov 28 14:03 configure
-rw-r--r-- 1 jengelh users    111 Nov 28 14:02 configure.ac
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jengelh users  17867 Nov 28 14:03 depcomp
-rw-r--r-- 1 jengelh users     68 Nov 28 14:04 foo.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 jengelh users     23 Nov 28 14:03 foo.h
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jengelh users  13620 Nov 28 14:03 install-sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jengelh users  11135 Nov 28 14:03 missing
14:04 yaguchi:/dev/shm/test > md obj
14:04 yaguchi:/dev/shm/test > cd obj
14:04 yaguchi:../test/obj > ../configure >/dev/null
14:04 yaguchi:../test/obj > make
  CC       foo.o
  CCLD     foo
14:04 yaguchi:../test/obj > make distcheck V=2
[...]
make[1]: Entering directory `/dev/shm/test/obj/foo-0/_build'
depbase=`echo foo.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
        gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"foo\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"foo\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"0\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"foo\ 0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\"
-DPACKAGE=\"foo\" -DVERSION=\"0\" -I. -I..     -g -O2 -MT foo.o -MD -MP -MF
-$depbase.Tpo -c -o foo.o ../foo.c &&\
        mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
../foo.c:1:17: error: foo.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [foo.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/dev/shm/test/obj/foo-0/_build'
make: *** [distcheck] Error 2

That is because it uses "/dev/shm/test/obj/foo-0/_build/../.." as
$srcdir (which however is the $builddir) instead of
"/dev/shm/test/obj/foo-0/_build/.."


Jan