AUDIT: r21570 - gnucash/trunk - Fix clean targets and DIST_SOURCES

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Tue Nov 22 11:24:20 EST 2011


On Nov 22, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> 
>>> Have you tested the 'dbi' is included in the results of "make dist" even
>>> if you do not --enable-dbi, or if you explicitly --disable-dbi?
>>> 
>> 
>> Boy, you don't trust autotools to work, do you? It does, as
>> advertised, as long as you use AM_CONDITIONAL to control what gets
>> compiled. Yes, I made that change in each directory where it was done
>> with AC_SUBST (which requires one to manually set DIST_SUBDIRS) and
>> checked each one to make sure that it worked as advertised.
> 
> No, I don't, because I've been burned by it multiple times in the past.
> The Makefiles are the way they are specifically because auto-tools did
> NOT work right before.
> 
> I'm glad to hear it works now.

Well, I made the change because the manually-set DIST_SUBDIRS was broken, at least for src/python, invoking make twice on the DIST targets.

Regards,
John Ralls






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