Re: Error on make distcheck with current cvs

[Jonathan Underwood <j dot underwood at open dot ac dot uk>]

Hi Stuart, Gerard,

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Gerard Jungman wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 13:51, Stewart V. Wright wrote:
> > In summary in the gsl/Makefile.am file the problem is to do with the lines:
> >
> >   clean: remove-links
> >   distclean: remove-links
> >
> > when they should read:
> >
> >   clean-local: remove-links
> >   distclean-local: remove-links
>
> The current CVS version actually says:
>
>  clean: clean-am remove-links
>  distclean: distclean-am remove-links
>
> Explicitly, what change are you advocating?


The following change works for versions 1.8.3 and 1.7 of automake+aclocal

[jgu@pasiphae gsl-wigner]$ cvs diff -u gsl/Makefile.am 
../gsl/gsl/Makefile.am Index: gsl/Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gsl/gsl/gsl/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 Makefile.am
--- gsl/Makefile.am     20 Mar 2004 23:07:06 -0000      1.5
+++ gsl/Makefile.am     14 Sep 2004 21:24:51 -0000
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@

 all: all-am header-links

-clean: clean-am remove-links
-distclean: distclean-am remove-links
+clean-local: clean-am remove-links
+distclean-local: distclean-am remove-links