Re: overwriting source files

[John Darrington]

Looking at this again, I see something strange in the tarball:

$ ls -l doc/pspp.xml doc/version.texi doc/help-pages-list 
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john    611 Mar  8  2015 doc/help-pages-list
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 725562 Mar 20 01:19 doc/pspp.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john     93 Mar 26 18:19 doc/version.texi

make dist is supposed to depend on doc/pspp.xml which in turn
depends on doc/version.texi

So I don't understand how this combination of timestamps can have
arisen.

Can you remember the sequence of commands you ran to create the tarball?


J'


On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 08:17:03AM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
     
     On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 10:30:09AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
          "make distcheck" currently fails because the build process overwrites
          files in the srcdir, namely help-pages-list and pspp.xml.  These are 
in
          the srcdir because we want to distribute pspp.xml.
     
     I don't get this problem.  make distcheck works just fine for me.
     
     pspp.xml should not be regenerated unless it is out of date.  So I don't 
know why
     you are seeing this.  I would expect that you would also have the same 
problem
     with pspp.info
          
          The easiest solution would probably be to not distribute pspp.xml, so
          that we could move these to the builddir.
     
     If we did that, then we would have to state that makeinfo and xmllint are 
neccessary build
     dependencies - and not just any old makeinfo - it is rather particular 
about having the
     correct version.
     
     J'
     
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