Re: Makefile.static in EXTRA_DIST vanishes on make distcheck

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Saturday 12 November 2011, Holger Hans wrote:
> On 11/12/2011 09:34 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 November 2011, Holger Hans wrote:
> > No, it's not gone -- the problem is sightly sublter: "make distcheck"
> > performs a *VPATH build*, and in such a build the Makefile.static won't
> > be placed in the builddir (i.e., the current directory) as usual, but
> > rather in the srcdir.  But ...
> 
> thanks a lot for your explanation (pretty obvious...), I have fixed the rule
> and all is well now.
>
Glad to hear that.

> I assume I would have noticed this with a srcdir != builddir build as well.
>
Yes, if my diagnosis was right (and at this point I assume it was).

Regards,
  Stefano