Re: make dist failure

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 10 March 2010 07:47:15 Lars Hecking wrote:
> 
> $ make dist
> ...
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/src/cvs/gnuplot/docs'
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `pdffigures.tex', needed by `distdir'.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/src/cvs/gnuplot/docs'
> $ 
> 
>  make dist must be standalone, i.e. be able to run straight after configure
>  without having to build anything first. Also, the pdffigures target needs
>  some work; going by the error message above, I should be able to
>   cd docs; make pdffigures.tex
>  but there's no such target.

Could this be because you didn't do  "cvs update -d"?
pdffigures.tex is a new file, but it is present both in CVS and in the
tarball that I get from "make dist" or "make distcheck".

Admittedly I've been doing these checks on the 4.4 source in preparation
for release, but so far as I know it should work the same for 4.5.

	Ethan