Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Patches to avoid use of make recursion in the 'src/' subdir

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
...
>> FYI, here's another make distcheck problem,
...
> And here's another:
...
>   make[3]: Makefile: No such file or directory
>   make[3]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'.  Stop.
>   make[3]: Entering directory
> /h/j/w/co/cu/tests/torture/coreutils/test/coreutils-8.19.68-ea804-dirty'
>   Making distclean in lib
>   make[4]: Entering directory
> /h/j/w/co/cu/tests/torture/coreutils/test/coreutils-8.19.68-ea804-dirty/lib'

I tracked that to a now-stale use of -C src -f Makefile.
You're welcome to merge this into the appropriate patch:

diff --git a/dist-check.mk b/dist-check.mk
index 6706ea0..6e5726a 100644
--- a/dist-check.mk
+++ b/dist-check.mk
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ pfx=$(t)/i

 built_programs =                                               \
   $$(echo 'spy:;@echo $$(bin_PROGRAMS)'                                \
-    | MAKEFLAGS= $(MAKE) -s -C src -f Makefile -f - spy                \
-    | fmt -1 | sed 's,$(EXEEXT)$$,,' | sort -u)
+    | MAKEFLAGS= $(MAKE) -s -f Makefile -f - spy               \
+    | fmt -1 | sed 's,src/,,;s,$(EXEEXT)$$,,' | sort -u)

 # More than once, tainted build and source directory names would
 # have caused at least one "make check" test to apply "chmod 700"