Re: distcheck missing files

[Eric Blake]

On 05/20/2013 01:24 AM, Kip Warner wrote:
> Hey list,
> 
> My autotool'd project configure and builds fine. When I run distcheck
> target, I notice that some tests fail because it is missing files that
> ought to be in 'Tests/'. 

distcheck is provided by automake, not autoconf; perhaps you'll get
better answers from the automake list or from reading the automake manual.

> 
> I checked my projects Makefile.am and, consistent with what I took from
> chapter 14.1 of the manual, I made sure that the directory containing my
> test files ('Tests/') was present in the EXTRA_DIST variable. If I'm not
> mistaken, listing 'Tests' in that variable should copy everything
> recursively in that folder which is what I want.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Without seeing your actual Makefile.am, I can only guess that perhaps
you made your EXTRA_DIST conditional?  I've been bitten by that in some
of my own projects, where a conditional EXTRA_DIST impacts what goes
into the tarball according to the configure options used, even though
that is generally a bad idea (you want the tarball to be independent of
configure options).

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