On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:01:59PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > In a project, using autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10.1, libtool 1.5.26, > > make distcheck succeeds. If I untar the created .tar.bz2 file, and > > /path/to/untar/configure && make, I get errors - somehow the manual > > "check build from buildir != srcdir" fails, but I thought distcheck > > checked it automatically. (I must be missing something, but what?) > > Hmm. Maybe it fails due to absolute value for $(srcdir) (as computed > by configure from the path to it)? Please show the failure (cut and > paste!). The make implementation and version used is very interesting > to know, too: VPATH issues are very make dependent. > > There can also be bugs that don't show up with certain values of > srcdir; ../configure is fairly common, and there have been suggestions > before to change distcheck to try something different. > > Oh, BTW, there's a 99% chance this issue is Automake specific rather > than Autoconf. The project was broken due to liberal use of #include "../../config.h". configure will pop config.h in the builddir, so the source file will never see ../../config.h. I thought that running make distcheck in the source directory should fail? Ah! The first configure will create srcdir/config.h. Then, if you have -I.. in CPPFLAGS things built in srcdir/_build may find srcdir/config.h ? Need to look at that in the morning... Cheers, Patrick _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
