Re: distcheck fails (missing files)

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Dan" == Dan E Kelley <address@hidden> writes:

[...]
 Dan> PROBLEM. However, "make distcheck" fails.  What it does is to create a
 Dan> subdir called "=build" in the dist directory (named "gri-2.12.5"), and
 Dan> it inserts Makefiles there, and subdirs there, but no sources.  So,
 Dan> when it tries a build, it fails.
[...]

On second thoughts, this sounds like a symptom of missing
$(srcdir) in custom rules.

If you have any explicit (i.e., not suffix rules) hand-crafted
rule like

  built: distributed
          command -o built distributed 

you should change it to

  built: $(srcdir)/distributed
          command -o built $(srcdir)/distributed

to support builds out of the source directory.  
(These out-of-source builds is also called VPATH builds.)
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz