[jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-1784) enable distcheck for VPATH builds

["Dave Cottlehuber (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Dave Cottlehuber commented on COUCHDB-1784:
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Looks like I'm still missing something -- if I run configure from a different directory to the source (in this case, source is generated from git export, so no SHA available), I also get:

You have configured Apache CouchDB, time to relax.

Run `make && sudo make install' to install.
make  dist-gzip am__post_remove_distdir='@:'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `THANKS', needed by `distdir'.  Stop.
make: *** [dist] Error 2

If I `touch thanks` in the VPATH build directory (not the source) then the build proceeds. Does this need fixing (and what is appropriate?) or have I just joined the dark side of unix?

Finally, I assume under our new git approach this needs a branch of its own and should be merged into 1.3.x and master respectively, with suitable NEWS/CHANGES/ changelog.rst additions.?

                
> enable distcheck for VPATH builds
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1784
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1784
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Build System
>            Reporter: Dave Cottlehuber
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.3.1
>
>         Attachments: 0001-vpath-and-license.skip.patch
>
>
> VPATH doesn't work for distcheck due to license.skip being an absolute path.

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