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Re: [bug-gawk] "make distcheck" fails to to files left in the build dire
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Aharon Robbins |
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Re: [bug-gawk] "make distcheck" fails to to files left in the build directory |
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Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:43:21 +0200 |
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Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 |
Hi.
> > Thanks for the mail. Why is _beginfile2 left over? That is the real
> > question.
> >
> It seems to be left over in VPATH builds only. And the reason is that
> the test that creates it, i.e., `beginfile2', *fails* in a VPATH build
> (but the make exit status doesn't relect this failure, yikes!)
I think we've fixed this.
> > version.c is left around on purpose; it's needed for
> > some of the non-Unix systems which don't run configure.
> >
> Then you should define `distcleancheck_listfiles' so that `version.c'
> is explicitly ignored and don't cause a spurious failure.
Great! Fixed. Will push this out shortly.
> > And just out of curiosity, why are you running make distcheck? I'm the
> > only one who should be doing 'make dist'. :-)
> >
> I was trying out the development version of automake with a few real-life
> packages (gawk among them) to ensure we haven't introduced any glaring
> breakage or incompatibility. So you shouldn't consider yourself the
> only one who should be doing 'make distcheck' for gawk -- count in also
> the automake developers ;-)
Fair enough! Thanks.
Arnold