Re: Troubles with pkgdata_DATA primary...

[John Calcote]

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Never mind ... duh ... I forgot to take the docs directory out of the
EXTRA_DIST variable when I added it to the SUBDIRS variable.

Thus (I'm guessing) the distdir code was trying to create files that
were already in place, and marked read-only by the distcheck code.

John Calcote wrote:
> I have a simple makefile.am in my ftk/docs directory. All it's trying to
> do is build and tar up doxygen docs:
> 
> ftk/docs/Makefile.am:
> -------------------
> docpkg = $(PACKAGE)-doxy-$(VERSION)
> 
> pkgdata_DATA = $(docpkg).tar.gz
> 
> $(docpkg).tar.gz: doxygen.stamp
>         tar chof - html | gzip -9 -c >$@
> 
> doxygen.stamp: doxyfile
>         $(DOXYGEN) $<
>         echo Timestamp > $@
> 
> CLEANFILES = doxywarn.txt doxygen.stamp $(docpkg).tar.gz
> 
> clean-local:
>         -rm -rf html
> -------------------
> 
> When I hook this Makefile.am into the build system (via
> AC_CONFIG_FILES), I get the following from "make distcheck":
> 
> Output:
> -------------------
> $ cd build; ../configure && make distcheck
> ...
> Making uninstall in docs
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/jcalcote/dev/prj/flaim/ftk/build/ftk-1.1/_build/docs'
>  rm -f
> '/tmp/am-dc-2299//home/jcalcote/dev/prj/flaim/ftk/build/ftk-1.1/_inst/share/ftk/ftk-doxy-1.1.tar.gz'
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/jcalcote/dev/prj/flaim/ftk/build/ftk-1.1/_build/docs'
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/jcalcote/dev/prj/flaim/ftk/build/ftk-1.1/_build'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall-am'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/jcalcote/dev/prj/flaim/ftk/build/ftk-1.1/_build'
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/jcalcote/dev/prj/flaim/ftk/build/ftk-1.1/_build'
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/jcalcote/dev/prj/flaim/ftk/build/ftk-1.1/_build'
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/jcalcote/dev/prj/flaim/ftk/build/ftk-1.1/_build'
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/jcalcote/dev/prj/flaim/ftk/build/ftk-1.1/_build'
> { test ! -d ftk-1.1 || { find ftk-1.1 -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod
> u+w {} ';' && rm -fr ftk-1.1; }; }
> test -d ftk-1.1 || mkdir ftk-1.1
> cp: cannot create regular file `ftk-1.1/docs/doxywarn.txt': Permission
> denied
> cp: cannot create regular file `ftk-1.1/docs/doxyfile': Permission denied
> cp: cannot create regular file `ftk-1.1/docs/Makefile': Permission denied
> cp: cannot create directory `ftk-1.1/docs/html': Permission denied
> cp: cannot create regular file `ftk-1.1/docs/doxygen.stamp': Permission
> denied
> cp: cannot create regular file `ftk-1.1/docs/ftk-doxy-1.1.tar.gz':
> Permission denied
> make[1]: *** [distdir] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/jcalcote/dev/prj/flaim/ftk/build/ftk-1.1/_build'
> make: *** [distcheck] Error 2
> -------------------
> 
> Do I misunderstand the use of the DATA primary? Perhaps DATA files are
> not allowed to be built? I can't find anything in the Automake docs
> about required properties of DATA files, and I don't get enough output
> from make to determine where this problem is occurring in the Makefile.
> 
> One clue - I tried running this command using a -d on the make command
> line. Of course, I got tons more output, but one interesting clue was
> that make told me just before the failed copy commands above that
> "destdir" needed to be rebuilt...strange.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> John
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