Problem distchecking CVS automake

[Benoit Sigoure]

Hello,
it looks like it's impossible to dist or distcheck automake after a  
fresh checkout, one has to run make all first.

mkdir automake && cd automake
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/automake co .
cd automake
mkdir _build && cd _build
../configure
make distcheck

[...]

make[1]: Entering directory  
`/Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/doc'
PATH="`pwd`/../tests:$PATH" && \
        export PATH && \
        cd ../../doc/amhello && \
        ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.10a AUTOMAKE=automake-1.10a \
        autoreconf -vfi && \
        ./configure && \
        make  distcheck && \
        make  distclean && \
        rm -rf aclocal.m4 autom4te.cache Makefile.in config.h.in  
configure depcomp install-sh missing src/Makefile.in && \
        mv amhello-1.0.tar.gz ..
/Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/doc/../tests/aclocal-1.10a: line  
17: /Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/aclocal: No such  
file or directory
/Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/doc/../tests/aclocal-1.10a: line  
17: exec: /Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/aclocal:  
cannot execute: No such file or directory
/Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/doc/../tests/automake-1.10a:  
line 15: /Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/automake: No  
such file or directory
/Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/doc/../tests/automake-1.10a:  
line 15: exec: /Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/automake:  
cannot execute: No such file or directory
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal-1.10a  --output=aclocal.m4t
/Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/doc/../tests/aclocal-1.10a: line  
17: /Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/aclocal: No such  
file or directory
/Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/doc/../tests/aclocal-1.10a: line  
17: exec: /Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/aclocal:  
cannot execute: No such file or directory
autoreconf: aclocal-1.10a failed with exit status: 126
make[1]: *** [../../doc/amhello-1.0.tar.gz] Error 126
make[1]: Leaving directory `/Users/tsuna/svn/cvs/automake/automake/_build/doc'
make: *** [distdir] Error 1



I attempted to fix this minor inconvenience but ended up with strange  
problems with amhello which would be distributed in doc.tar.gz instead  
of amhello-
VERSION.tar.gz and finally gave up (lack of time).



Index: Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/automake/automake/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.249
diff -u -r1.249 Makefile.am
--- Makefile.am 21 Aug 2006 04:25:35 -0000      1.249
+++ Makefile.am 14 Jun 2007 11:36:47 -0000
@@ -385,3 +385,5 @@
        test $$stat = 0 || \
          echo "See Fetchdir/update.patch for a log of the changes."; \
        exit $$stat
+
+dist-hook: aclocal automake
Index: lib/Automake/Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/automake/automake/lib/Automake/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -r1.23 Makefile.am
--- lib/Automake/Makefile.am    23 Mar 2006 06:35:15 -0000      1.23
+++ lib/Automake/Makefile.am    14 Jun 2007 11:36:48 -0000
@@ -68,4 +68,6 @@
        chmod a-w Config.tmp
        mv -f Config.tmp Config.pm

+dist-hook: Config.pm
+
 EXTRA_DIST = Config.in


Cheers,

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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