With the 1.1.1 tarball, if a user does 'make && make distcheck', things pass, but if they do 'make distcheck' after 'make clean', there is an odd failure: GEN ../../docs/devhelp/index.html I/O error : Permission denied I/O error : Permission denied runtime error: file ../../docs/devhelp/devhelp.xsl line 43 element document xsltDocumentElem: unable to save to ../../docs/devhelp/libvirt-virterror.html I/O error : Permission denied I/O error : Permission denied This implies that the rules for 'make dist' are missing a dependency - the generated documentation needs to be up-to-date before creating the tarball, or else the tarball will be missing files, where the end user will end up trying to rebuild files in srcdir, and that fails when srcdir is read-only. 1.1.1 plus this patch now works without issues (other issues have crept in to 1.1.2-rc1 that prevent 'make distcheck' from working, but those will be cleaned up in later patches). * docs/Makefile.am (dist-local): New dependency. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt; --- All that explanation, and just one line to change. :) Pushing under the build-breaker rule. docs/Makefile.am | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/Makefile.am b/docs/Makefile.am index 0b0d2d4..9939cc8 100644 --- a/docs/Makefile.am +++ b/docs/Makefile.am @@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ $(APIBUILD_STAMP): $(srcdir)/apibuild.py \ check-local: all +dist-local: all clean-local: rm -f *~ *.bak *.hierarchy *.signals *-unused.txt *.html -- 1.8.3.1