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Re: Problem with 'make distcheck'
>>>>> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Huber <sebastian-huber@web.de> writes:
>> I know in the past it didn't work to put `$(top_srcdir)' in a path in
>> a _SOURCES variable. Alexandre, has this changed?
>> I don't think this would cause your problem necessarily, but it is an
>> oddity.
This is definitely the problem. Changing the `$(top_srcdir)' to `..'
in your example fixes the problem.
I didn't investigate too deeply. But my guess is that the
$(top_srcdir) causes the dist rule (the one run in the distcheck build
tree) to be confused about where to copy the source file.
Tom