Re: ATF HEAD build failure with BSD make

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:38:19PM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost> 
> wrote:
[...]
> > make: don't know how to make AUTHORS. Stop
> 
> I fixed this earlier today in revision
> d099171ee31d90bd54837d8a813b1412fd6ac240.  Please let me know if it
> works for you.

Gasp, i missed it. It's in the org.NetBSD.atf.src.reorg branch, but i
follow the main one (org.NetBSD.atf.src).

> Removing $(srcdir) altogether is not correct as that changes the
> intended behaviour of these rules.  See below.
> 
> > NB: This is also very unfriendly for cases where builddir != srcdir
> > (and srcdir is on a read-only filesystem).
> 
> True, and yes it is ugly.  But this should only matter if you build
> from a checkout of the repository.  distfiles include a pregenerated
> copy of all documentation (hence why I have to put the files in
> srcdir), so a read-only srcdir is fine for formal releases.  I think
> it's a reasonable compromise.

Ok, will only do it with distfiles and keep checkout builds in tree.

Thanks.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.