Re: make distcheck and minor Makefile discrepancies

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 13:42 +0100, �stein Gisn�wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tired to build tinymail today and found that ./autogen.sh modifies
> libtinymail-camel/camel-lite/COPYING. Why is the copyright notice just
> a reference? Either the full license should be commited to SVN or
> ./autogen.sh should not modify it.

I have no idea why this is happening. COPYING is a full copy in the
repository.

http://svn.tinymail.org/svn/tinymail/trunk/COPYING


About the other problem, you need to --enable-gkt-doc followed by a
normal make before doing make distcheck, and then it works.

The normal make is to make that missing xml file. 


> libtinymail-camel/camel-lite/{INSTALL,COPYING}.autogen_bak are being
> created by ./autogen.sh. Maybe they could be added to .svnignore?
> 
> make distcheck did not at all succeed. I know tinymail is not up for a
> release yet, but personally I think distcheck is a good way to detect
> some Makefile.am mistakes. The first error was caused by some files in
> camel's EXTRA_DIST which are not there anymore. The attached patch is
> probably a sufficient fix.
> 
> The next problem was not that trivial. Maybe someone has an idea what
> the fix should be here?
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/oysteigi/src/tinymail/trunk/docs/devel'
> list='reference doxygen'; for subdir in $list; do \
>           if test "$subdir" = .; then :; else \
>             test -d ../../libtinymail-1.0.0/docs/devel/$subdir \
>             || mkdir ../../libtinymail-1.0.0/docs/devel/$subdir \
>             || exit 1; \
>             (cd $subdir && \
>               make  \
>                 top_distdir="." \
>                 distdir=../../../libtinymail-1.0.0/docs/devel/$subdir \
>                 distdir) \
>               || exit 1; \
>           fi; \
>         done
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/home/oysteigi/src/tinymail/trunk/docs/devel/reference'
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `xml/tree_index.sgml', needed by
> `distdir'.  Stop.
> 
> Cheers,
> �stein Gisn�> _______________________________________________
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