Re: build failure (missing false.c)

[Jim Meyering]

Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Coreutils from CVS has trouble with dynamicaly generated false.c:
>
> [...]
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/rmh/shared/gnu/coreutils/build/po'
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../../coreutils/src/false.c', needed by 
> `coreutils.pot-update'.  Stop.
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rmh/shared/gnu/coreutils/build/po'
> make[2]: *** [../../coreutils/po/coreutils.pot] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rmh/shared/gnu/coreutils/build/po'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rmh/shared/gnu/coreutils/build'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

Thanks for mentioning that.
As you probably noticed, it happens only when builddir != srcdir.
I'm not sure it's worth trying to fix, but if someone sends in
a good patch, I'll apply it.