Re: Build problems for m4 target with make distcheck

[Stephen Torri]

On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 22:59, Tom Tromey wrote:

> `distcheck' will unpack your new tarball and try to configure and
> build it.  Look in the unpacked directory.  Is the `m4' subdirectory
> there?

Yes.
 
> If not, did you perhaps forget `SUBDIRS = m4'?

No. Its the second item in the list.
 
> That's the first thing that comes to mind.
> After that, I don't have an idea.  More information would be
> required.  For instance if you could construct a simple test case,
> that would help...

I have inherited the duty of maintaining the automake/autoconf build
system. I am not sure how to "debug" this or create a test case. Its
there a way for me to step through it? Keep the temporary files? This
way I could narrow down what is happening by eliminating steps.

Stephen