On Sun, 2014-10-26 at 17:40 +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
Hello, 'make distcheck' fails for a module I maintain (LaTeXila): make[5]: Entering directory '/home/seb/gnome/latexila/latexila-3.14.1/_build/src' rm -f ../../src/latexila_vala.stamp && echo stamp > ../../src/latexila_vala.stamp-t rm: cannot remove ‘../../src/latexila_vala.stamp’: Permission denied Makefile:1475: recipe for target '../../src/latexila_vala.stamp' failed make[5]: *** [../../src/latexila_vala.stamp] Error 1 It's because the latexila-3.14.1/src/ directory doesn't have write permissions, it's all read-only (make distcheck is testing builddir != srcdir after extracting the tarball). Normally only the C code should be compiled, but it seems that valac tries to run. It was not the case before. What has changed recently in LaTeXila is that an internal library in C has been written, with GObject Introspection support and vapigen to generate a .vapi that the Vala code uses. I know Vala has some problems with builddir != srcdir: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694153 But I don't know why valac is run during 'make distcheck'. And I prefer to run 'make distcheck' instead of 'make dist' for rolling tarballs. It's maybe an interference with GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_CHECK or VAPIGEN_CHECK in configure.ac. Any help would be greatly appreciated. LaTeXila is available there: https://git.gnome.org/browse/latexila/ 'make distcheck' fails for the master branch, but it succeeds for the gnome-3-14 branch.
make distcheck is running because you have liblatexila/latexila.vapi in latexila_SOURCES. That means that make will rebuild latexila whenever the timestamp on liblatexila/latexila.vapi is newer than the stamp file. liblatexila/latexila.vapi isn't included in the dist tarball, so it will always be generated and therefor newer than the version in the stamp file. Even if it *were* included in the dist tarball, it is automatically rebuilt whenever the GIR changes. You should probably add the VAPI to EXTRA_DIST if you want to avoid a hard dependency on vapigen. Additionally, instead of listing it in latexila_SOURCES, change latexila_VALAFLAGS to include --vapidir liblatexila --pkg latexila. Patch attached. -Evan
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