Re: [bug-gawk] "make distcheck" fails to to files left in the build directory

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi.

> > Thanks for the mail.  Why is _beginfile2 left over?  That is the real
> > question.
> >
> It seems to be left over in VPATH builds only.  And the reason is that
> the test that creates it, i.e., `beginfile2', *fails* in a VPATH build
> (but the make exit status doesn't relect this failure, yikes!)

I think we've fixed this.

> > version.c is left around on purpose; it's needed for
> > some of the non-Unix systems which don't run configure.
> >
> Then you should define `distcleancheck_listfiles' so that `version.c'
> is explicitly ignored and don't cause a spurious failure.

Great!  Fixed. Will push this out shortly.

> > And just out of curiosity, why are you running make distcheck?  I'm the
> > only one who should be doing 'make dist'. :-)
> >
> I was trying out the development version of automake with a few real-life
> packages (gawk among them) to ensure we haven't introduced any glaring
> breakage or incompatibility.  So you shouldn't consider yourself the
> only one who should be doing 'make distcheck' for gawk -- count in also
> the automake developers ;-)

Fair enough!  Thanks.

Arnold