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Failure to create directory during info-building phase of "make distcheck"

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From: Peter Breitenlohner <peb <at> mppmu.mpg.de>
To: James Youngman <jay <at> gnu.org>
Cc: bug-automake <at> gnu.org, 20186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>,
 Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Subject: Re: bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building
 phase of "make distcheck"
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:47:57 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, James Youngman wrote:

> The timestamps look OK to me:
>
> ...
>
> Perhaps the cause is this rule, though:
>
> dblocation.texi: ../locate/dblocation.texi
>        cp ../locate/dblocation.texi $@
>
> This will clearly update the mtime of dblocation.texi.

Hi James,

indeed.  You could use the modified rule
	dblocation.texi: ../locate/dblocation.texi
		$(LN_S) ../locate/dblocation.texi $@
where $(LN_S) is 'ln -s' on systems with working symlinks or otherwise one
of 'ln' or 'cp'.  I assume your Makefile.in already contains
	LN_S = @LN_S@
otherwise you should add
	AC_PROG_LN_S
to your configure.ac.

I assume 'make distcheck' will never run on systems without working symlinks
so this should be OK.

Regards
Peter

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