[Fontconfig] Got stuck making release

Patrick Lam plam at MIT.EDU
Sat Sep 24 07:41:13 EST 2005


Keith Packard wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 02:19 -0400, Patrick Lam wrote:
> 
>>make distcheck fails on the doc directory.  At first, there's an
>>apparently bogus value for DOCSRC in Makefile.am; I tried replacing it
>>with DOCSRC=doc, but then it still fails with 'No rule to make target
>>`fonts-conf.5', needed by `distdir'.  Stop'.  Help!  I have insufficient
>>build-fu.
> 
> 
> sigh. It's probably caused by the lack of suitable ${srcdir} or
> ${objdir} in various places. Sometimes automake can't figure out where
> sources for various parts are located, so explicit paths are required.

apt-get install docbook-utils fixed it without any changes to source.
I've patched INSTALL to add a comment.  Release coming soon!

pat




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