Re: distcheck fails (missing files)

Yes,  I think this is the sort of thing that I needed to know.  I'll check 
that! 

On Sun, 25 May 2003, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

> Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 17:34:15 +0200
> From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: bug-automake@xxxxxxx
> To: Dan Kelley <Dan.Kelley@xxxxxx>
> Cc: bug-automake@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: distcheck fails (missing files)
> 
> >>> "Dan" == Dan E Kelley <kelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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