Re: [bug-gnulib] Problem: regex.c being omitted from the distribution

[James Youngman]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:40:33AM +0000, James Youngman wrote:

> I wonder if the problem is in effect that regex.c should be included
> somehow in $(EXTRA_DIST) or $(DIST_COMMON) but it's not.

Hmm.  Using "gnulib-tool --import" produces a Makefile.in file
including :-

DIST_COMMON = $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/Makefile.in __fpending.c \
        alloca.c atexit.c error.c error.h fileblocks.c fnmatch.c \
        getcwd.c getline.c getndelim2.c getopt.c getopt1.c \
        gettimeofday.c lstat.c malloc.c memcmp.c mempcpy.c mempcpy.h \
        memset.c mktime.c mountlist.c readlink.c realloc.c rpmatch.c \
        stat.c stpcpy.c strdup.c strstr.c strtoimax.c strtol.c \
        strtoll.c strtoul.c strtoull.c strtoumax.c time_r.c

On the other hand, using "gnulib-tool --create-testdir produces a
Makefile.in which says :-

DIST_COMMON = $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/Makefile.in __fpending.c \
        alloca.c atexit.c error.c error.h fileblocks.c fnmatch.c \
        getcwd.c getline.c getndelim2.c getopt.c getopt1.c \
        gettimeofday.c lstat.c malloc.c memcmp.c mempcpy.c mempcpy.h \
        memset.c mktime.c mountlist.c readlink.c realloc.c regex.c \
        rpmatch.c stat.c stpcpy.c strdup.c strstr.c strtoimax.c \
        strtol.c strtoll.c strtoul.c strtoull.c strtoumax.c time_r.c

However, the generated "Makefile.am" files differ only in the "Invoked
as:" comment.  The configure.in file for findutils doesn't call
gl_REGEX, though it does call gl_EARLY and gl_INIT.  The configure.ac
file that "gnulib-tool --create-testdir" produces does indeed directly
call gl_REGEX.  The gnulib/m4/gnulib.m4 generated with --import does
call gl_REGEX from gl_INIT.

James.