Re: error using EXTRA_DIST

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 05:06:40PM -0400, Giambattista Bloisi wrote:
> Hi,
>       I have found a little error in automake using EXTRA_DIST variable, 
> using GNU 
> automake 1.4 on linux Mandrake 8.0.
> 
> When I run 'make dist' I got an error when the following line is evaluated (I 
> think it's generated by automake because it is located into Makefile and 
> Makefile.in):
> 
> cp -pr $$/$$file $(distdir)/$$file; \
> 
> If I change it to:
> 
> cp -pr $$d/$$file $(distdir)/$$file; \
> 
> all go right.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is an automake bug (I'm using libtool and others 
> autotools, of course), but I hope that this segnalation may help other users 
> to avoid my same problem.

This one of a few very often reported bugs that is fixed in the 1.4-px
series, so please upgrade to automake 1.4-p5 if you require Automake
1.4, or else to the latest stable release Automake 1.5.  Both have the
bug fixed.

Do Mandrake really distribute a 2 year release of Automake with their
latest release?  Hmmm.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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