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Re: Problem with 'make distcheck'
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 15:56, you wrote:
> >>>>> "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
> $(top_srcdir) causes the dist rule (the one run in the distcheck build
> tree) to be confused about where to copy the source file.
>
> Tom
Hello,
ok, changing `$(top_srcdir)' to `..' fixed the problem, but is this a
temporay workaround or is the behaviour of the dist rule not correct in this
case? To use $(top_srcdir) instead of '..' seems more natural to me.
Sebastian