Re: make dist fails

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Kai,

* Kai Sterker wrote on Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:46:29AM CEST:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Can you post your toplevel Makefile.am?
> > Can you also post the output of
> >  make dist SHELL="/bin/sh -x"
> >
> > with all generated files unchanged?
> 
> Did configure in a fresh directory, then ran
> 
> make dist SHELL="/bin/sh -x" &> make-dist.log
> 
> See attached files.

The shell trace shows that this command is called
  ../adonthell/./install-sh -c -d adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/config 
adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/scripts

It should create the two directories
  adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/config
  adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/scripts

but apparently it fails to create the second directory.  Unless you have
an install-sh script with a scriptversion older than 2004-01-08.23, this
should work as expected.  If your script is older, then upgrade it using
'automake --add-missing --force-missing' and ensure that 'make dist'
works for you now; otherwise, i.e., if your install-sh script is newer
but things still fail, please post the output of

  rm -rf adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/config adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/scripts
  /bin/sh -x ../adonthell/./install-sh -c -d \
    adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/config adonthell-0.4.0-alpha-3/scripts

when executed in the top build directory.

Thanks,
Ralf