Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Patches to avoid use of make recursion in the 'src/' subdir

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Jim, thanks for you patience and work on this.

On 08/31/2012 10:31 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> And here's one more, so I don't forget:
>>
>>   rm -rf src/.deps
>>   rm -f Makefile
>>   ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean:
>>   ./man/arch.1
>>   ./man/hostname.1
>>   make[1]: *** [distcleancheck] Error 1
>>   make[1]: Leaving directory 
>> `/h/j/w/co/cu/coreutils-8.19.68-ea804-dirty/_build'
>>   make: *** [distcheck] Error 1
> 
> Ahh... that looked familiar once I got into it.
> I fixed a similar problem when converting cppi:
> 
> diff --git a/man/local.mk b/man/local.mk
> index 80519af..a52f5af 100644
> --- a/man/local.mk
> +++ b/man/local.mk
> @@ -186,3 +186,8 @@ $(MAN): $(top_srcdir)/src/system.h
>         && rm -rf $$t                                                 \
>         && chmod -w $@-t                                              \
>         && mv $@-t $@
> +
> +# This is a kludge to remove man/*.1 from a non-srcdir build.
> +distclean-local:
> +     test 'x$(srcdir)' = 'x$(builddir)' \
> +       || rm -f $(dist_man1_MANS) $(extra_man_1)
>
I have some pending changes that will conflict with this.  Can you hold
this change until I've posted them?  At that point, I might try to fix
VPATH issues myself.

Thanks,
  Stefano