[GnuCOBOL-users] generating tarstamp.h on trunk

[James K. Lowden]

A few moments ago, I checked out the trunk, ran autoreconf and
configure, but could not compile because of a Makefile error.  

  $ svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/open-cobol/code/trunk trunk

The Makefile failed to generate tarstamp.h.  The message below is
reformatted for your reading convenience.  

libtool: compile:
gcc \
        -DHAVE_CONFIG_H \
        -I. \
        -I../../libcob \
        -I.. \
        -I../.. \
        -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 \
        -I/usr/local/include \
        -O2 \
        -pipe \
        -finline-functions \
        -fsigned-char \
        -Wall \
        -Wwrite-strings \
        -Wmissing-prototypes \
        -Wno-format-y2k \
        -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE \
        -MT common.lo \
        -MD \
        -MP \
        -MF .deps/common.Tpo \
        -c ../../libcob/common.c  \
        -fPIC \
        -DPIC \
        -o .libs/common.o
../../libcob/common.c:23:22: fatal error: tarstamp.h: No such file or
directory compilation terminated.

The only code I could find that generates that file uses $(distdir),
which I don't think is right.  

I copied the tarstamp.h from a distributed tarball to the root of the
build tree, and was able to compile and link successfully.

--jkl