Re: distcheck fails with autotest: autom4te: cannot open ../../tests/testsuite.tmp: Permission denied

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Benoit,

* Benoit SIGOURE wrote on Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:07:23AM CET:
> Anyways, I must have b0rken something at some point, because now when I 
> `make distcheck', I get:
>
> make[3]: Entering directory 
> `/Users/tsuna/svn/git/boost.m4/_build/boost-m4-test-0.1/_build/tests'
> /bin/sh 
> /Users/tsuna/svn/git/boost.m4/_build/boost-m4-test-0.1/build-aux/missing 
> --run autom4te --language=autotest -I '../../tests' 
> ../../tests/testsuite.at -o ../../tests/testsuite.tmp
> autom4te: cannot open ../../tests/testsuite.tmp: Permission denied
> make[3]: *** [../../tests/testsuite] Error 1

The rule is that no distributed files can depend on undistributed ones.
So if you ship `testsuite', then ship package.m4 as well.  If you ship
package.m4, then it should not depend on config.status or Makefile
(the manual shows an example where it depends on configure.ac only.)

> so my guess is that it's related to the fact that I chose to generate 
> `package.m4' with config.status (it's an AC_CONFIG_FILES) instead of having 
> it depend on `Makefile' as shown in the Autoconf manual.

I don't see where you read that.

Cheers,
Ralf