Re: autoconf/automake building a distribution?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello pallav,

* pallav wrote on Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 06:14:10AM CEST:
> i'm trying to build a distribution using automake/autoconf. when i try
> "make dist", i get the following output.
> 
> cd . && /bin/sh /Users/pgupta/Documents/Villanova/leda-0.1/missing --
> run autoheader
> touch ./config.h.in
> { test ! -d LEDA-0.1 || { find LEDA-0.1 -type d ! -perm -200 -exec
> chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -fr LEDA-0.1; }; }
> mkdir LEDA-0.1
> list='m4 doc src'; for subdir in $list; do \
>   if test "$subdir" = .; then :; else \
>     test -d LEDA-0.1/$subdir \
>     || mkdir LEDA-0.1/$subdir \
>     || exit 1; \
>     (cd $subdir && \
>       make  \
>         top_distdir="." \
>         distdir=../LEDA-0.1/$subdir \
>         distdir) \
>       || exit 1; \
>   fi; \
> done
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target ` ', needed by `distdir'.  Stop.
> make: *** [distdir] Error 1

Hmm.  Please show the contents of the file m4/Makefile.am.
Which Automake version are you using, and what system is this on?

Cheers,
Ralf