[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] RFC: Fixing the build (out of tree & make distcheck etc)

[Arun Raghavan]

On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 14:07 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As we had some issues running make distcheck with the latest release can
> someone give some feedback on the following three patches (against
> stable queue for now but will also go into master).

Nice! It'll be good to be able to test build system patches with this
and possibly avoid breakage.

> The first patch basically just introduces some dummy Makefile.am's to
> ensure that the necessary directories are created in the build directory
> (for out of tree builds). This prevents the cc warnings about not being
> able to find an directory (a minor annoyance) but also allows the build
> to complete and do the necessary i18n stuff on the .desktop files which
> normally fail due to src/daemon not being a directory in the build tree
> (this is a bug in intl-tool as noted in the commit message).
> 
> The second patch fixes a problem when running make distcheck related to
> the udev rules. It insists on using the system folder and does not seem
> to honour DESTDIR. I guess a distcheck doesn't actually use a DESTDIR
> but a custom prefix and thus it fails. I'm not sure this is the best
> approach to fixing this but it seems to work for me. Feel free to test
> without this patch to see if it "just works" for you without it.

I think this patch makes sense as well.

> And thirdly this patch ensures the .version file is included in the
> tarball as stated in the docs of git-version-gen. Without this make
> distcheck fails as the source tree is read-only and thus the .version
> file cannot be created. By including it in the tarball, it does not get
> overwritten and the build works fine.
> 
> Comments welcome as I'm no autofoo expert and am just blundering around
> until things generally work.

Tried your patches against master, and make distcheck goes through fine
with a couple of minor patches (attached).

Cheers,
Arun
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