Re: overwriting source files

[Ben Pfaff]

I wiped out my build directory and reran "configure" and I don't see the
problem anymore.  It must have been stale files of one kind or another.

Thanks for the help.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:16:03AM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> I tried hard to produce a similar failure, but wasn't able to.
> Even after poking false date stamps into things.
> 
> But looking at pspp-0.10.0/doc/version.texi I see the date stamp
> nearly a year old:
> 
> @set UPDATED 10 May 2015
> 
> So my guess is that you have something in your git working directory
> which is hindering rebuilds of the manual.
> 
> I suggest that you do
> 
> git reset --hard origin/master
> git clean -dfx
> make -f Smake
> ...
> etc.
> 
> J'
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:45:00PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 11:41:24PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
>      > 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?
>      
>      My bash history shows me verifying that I had the right gnulib commit:
>      
>       1064  less README.Git
>       1065  cd ../gnulib
>       1066  git show
>       1067  cd ../master/
>      
>      then rerunning "make -f Smake", just to be sure, and then running
>      distcheck:
>      
>       1068  make -f Smake
>       1069  cd _build/
>       1070  make -j10 distcheck TESTSUITEFLAGS=-j10
>      
>      The distcheck failed, so afterward I investigated a bit but I ended up
>      using the tarball generated by the (failed) distcheck without
>      regenerating it.
> 
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