Re: distcheck does 'chmod a-w' - leads to mkdir "permission denied"

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:

> I stopped digging when I saw that I need libcares which is not provided
> by my distro.

Ah, well, it's only needed for nhrpd, which can be disabled with 
--disable-nhrpd. I'm not sure if the configure script handles it 
correctly though.

> in "doc/Makefile.am" 'quagga_TEXINFOS' contains "defines.texi".  By 
> default files in 'quagga_TEXINFOS' are distributed in the tarball. 
> since "defines.texi" is a generated file you don't want to distribute 
> it.  Putting it in 'nodist_quagga_TEXINFOS' instead should fix your 
> issue.

Even with defines.texi not distributed, or regenerated in the distcheck 
build, it still fails. Cause quagga.info depends on it. :(

I tried nodist_quagga_TEXINFOS and got the same result.

The automake option to build the info in the builddir worked though!

> The error message of 'make distcheck' is not really helpful to detect
> this issue, I am trying to see if something can be done to improve that.

That would be great. :) It's very difficult to figure out the issue 
without help.

Thanks!

Oh, I also had to add:

# do nothing for DVI, so we don't have to generate or distribute EPS
# figures
dvi: # nothing

to my doc/Makefile.am, or it would fail checking the 'dvi' target. Does 
anyone use DVI anymore? It's been probably 20 years since I did. Does it 
still need to be a default generated target?

Now I've got errors from 'distcleancheck', but those are definitely ones 
I wanted to see. ;)

regards,
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