Re: GNUMakefile: don't fail if there is no .tarball-version

[Simon Josefsson]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 'make dist' gets into a infloop in gnulib daily builds for me since
>> there is no .tarball-version file.  This should fix it.  Ok to push?
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> Thanks for the report.
> In daily builds of gnulib itself?  built how?
>
> In normal practice, the .tarball-version file exists only
> when the working directory is the result of unpacking a tarball.
>
> Please tell me how to reproduce the failure you're seeing.

The failure can be reproduced with:

$ gnulib-tool --create-testdir --with-tests --dir=foo
...
$ cd foo
...
$ make distcheck
INFO: running autoreconf for new version string: UNKNOWN
...
[normal configure run...]
INFO: running autoreconf for new version string: UNKNOWN
[normal configure run...]
INFO: running autoreconf for new version string: UNKNOWN
[normal configure run...]
INFO: running autoreconf for new version string: UNKNOWN
...

However, my fix wasn't complete.  It allows the build to avoid the
infloop, but later when running ./configure within the 'make distcheck'
target it fails with:

config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: linking ../../gltests/GNUmakefile to GNUmakefile
config.status: error: ../../gltests/GNUmakefile: file not found
configure: error: ../../gltests/configure failed for gltests
make: *** [distcheck] Error 1
address@hidden:~/gl2$ 

I haven't investigated this problem.

As a work around, my daily builder just does 'echo 0 > .tarball-version'
and that makes everything work.

/Simon