Re: config.status: error: ../../gltests/GNUmakefile: file not found

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Simon Josefsson wrote on Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 01:05:37PM CET:
> >> configure: creating ./config.status
> >> config.status: creating Makefile
> >> config.status: creating config.h
> >> config.status: linking ../../gltests/GNUmakefile to GNUmakefile
> >> config.status: error: ../../gltests/GNUmakefile: file not found
> >> configure: error: ../../gltests/configure failed for gltests
> >> make: *** [distcheck] Error 1
> >
> >> There is no gltests/GNUmakefile, should gnulib-tool have copied one?

> gnulib-tool didn't copy GNUmakefile into gltests/ so it never existed.
> I guess either gnulib-tool needs to copy GNUmakefile into gltests/ too,
> or the configure.ac snippet shouldn't be part of gltests/configure.ac.
> I'd prefer the latter (I don't think GNUmakefile belongs in
> non-top-level directories) but don't know how to achieve it.

Thanks for checking; I agree with the analysis, and that gltests
shouldn't contain GNUmakefile nor the configure.ac snippet from
modules/gnumakefile.

Cheers,
Ralf