building 1.8 (was: "make dist" shouldn't create doxygen documentation)

[Chris Lyttle]

Still no joy compiling it here. If I touch dummy.c to make this go away
it just fails late complaining about not having 'ChangeLog' in the po
directory. No friggin idea why that is. I officially give up trying to
make a 1.8.12 release.

Chris

On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 22:42 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> actually that file "dummy.c" never existed on my system at all. Since for 
> whatever reason "make dist" required it, I just created such an empty file 
> (touch dummy.c) and from there on, everything worked.
> 
> I'm now testing the tarball here... well, it works and runs "make distcheck". 
> I guess it should work for you as well?
> 
> Christian
> 
> Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2005 05:46 schrieb Chris Lyttle:
> > Damm tried again on my stable gentoo system and no go :(
> >
> > Fails in the testing phase with;
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/chris/cvs/gnucash-test'
> > rm -f make-gnucash-patch.tmp
> > sed < make-gnucash-patch.in > make-gnucash-patch.tmp \
> >             -e 's:@-PERL-@:/usr/bin/perl:g'
> > chmod +x make-gnucash-patch.tmp
> > mv make-gnucash-patch.tmp make-gnucash-patch
> > rm -f make-gnucash-potfiles.tmp
> > sed < make-gnucash-potfiles.in > make-gnucash-potfiles.tmp \
> >             -e 's:@-PERL-@:/usr/bin/perl:g'
> > chmod +x make-gnucash-potfiles.tmp
> > mv make-gnucash-potfiles.tmp make-gnucash-potfiles
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/chris/cvs/gnucash-test'
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chris/cvs/gnucash-test'
> > make: *** No rule to make target `dummy.c', needed by `distdir'.  Stop.
> >
> > Do you run make distcheck Christian? I'm afraid someone else may have to
> > roll the tarball to get this out.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:24 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > > Dear Chris,
> > >
> > > I regularly build 1.8 on my suse9.3 system, which is "relatively modern"
> > > (the successor suse10.0 was released just last week). I think I even
> > > completed "make distcheck" successfully a few days ago, but I might be
> > > wrong on that. However, similar to Derek I haven't tried this with a
> > > clean checkout for some time. Nevertheless "make dist" completes
> > > successfully and the resulting tarball will directly compile.
> > >
> > > Christian
> > >
> > > Chris Lyttle schrieb:
> > > > BTW I attempted to compile cvs of 1.8 on my gentoo system here last
> > > > weekend and it didn't get all that far. Is anyone able to compile it on
> > > > a relatively modern distro?
> 
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