Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Patches to avoid use of make recursion in the 'src/' subdir

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:

> Jim Meyering wrote:
> ...
>> No problem.
>> Next step, "make distcheck".  First failure is because inclusion of
>> version.h fails in the non-srcdir build:
> ...
>> This fixes it:
>>
>> diff --git a/src/local.mk b/src/local.mk
>
> FYI, here's another make distcheck problem,
> in case someone else can get to it before I do
> (it'll soon be dinner time here):
>
>   make[2]: Entering directory 
> `/h/j/w/co/cu/coreutils-8.19.68-ea804-dirty/_build'
>     CC       src/uname-arch.o
>     CC       src/hostname.o
>     CCLD     src/arch
>     CCLD     src/hostname
>     GEN      man/arch.1
>     GEN      man/hostname.1
>   mkdir: cannot create directory 'man/arch.td': No such file or directory
>   make[2]: *** [man/arch.1] Error 1
>   make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>   mkdir: cannot create directory 'man/hostname.td': No such file or directory
>   make[2]: *** [man/hostname.1] Error 1
>   make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/h/j/w/co/cu/coreutils-8.19.68-ea804-dirty/_build'
>   make[1]: *** [dist] Error 2
>   make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/h/j/w/co/cu/coreutils-8.19.68-ea804-dirty/_build'
>   make: *** [distcheck] Error 1

For the record, here's another infelicity I've noticed:

  checking whether _sys_siglist is declared... (cached) yes
  checking whether __sys_siglist is declared... (cached) no
  checking for library containing __gmpz_init... (cached) -lgmp
  checking whether this is an ELF system... yes
  ./configure: line 64019: EXEEXT: command not found
  ./configure: line 64019: EXEEXT: command not found
  ./configure: line 64019: EXEEXT: command not found
  ./configure: line 64019: EXEEXT: command not found
  ...
  ./configure: line 64019: EXEEXT: command not found
  ./configure: line 64019: EXEEXT: command not found
  ./configure: line 64019: EXEEXT: command not found
  checking whether NLS is requested... yes
  checking for msgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
  checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
  checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext

And here's another:

  make[8]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
  make[8]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
  make[8]: Leaving directory 
`/h/j/w/co/cu/tests/torture/coreutils/test/coreutils-8
  .19.68-ea804-dirty/gnulib-tests'
  make[7]: Leaving directory 
`/h/j/w/co/cu/tests/torture/coreutils/test/coreutils-8
  .19.68-ea804-dirty/gnulib-tests'
  make[6]: Leaving directory 
`/h/j/w/co/cu/tests/torture/coreutils/test/coreutils-8
  .19.68-ea804-dirty/gnulib-tests'
  make[5]: Leaving directory 
`/h/j/w/co/cu/tests/torture/coreutils/test/coreutils-8
  .19.68-ea804-dirty/gnulib-tests'
  make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/h/j/w/co/cu/tests/torture/coreutils/test/coreutils-8
  .19.68-ea804-dirty'
  make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/h/j/w/co/cu/tests/torture/coreutils/test/coreutils-8
  .19.68-ea804-dirty'
  make[3]: Makefile: No such file or directory
  make[3]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'.  Stop.
  make[3]: Entering directory 
`/h/j/w/co/cu/tests/torture/coreutils/test/coreutils-8.19.68-ea804-dirty'
  Making distclean in lib
  make[4]: Entering directory 
`/h/j/w/co/cu/tests/torture/coreutils/test/coreutils-8.19.68-ea804-dirty/lib'