Running 'make check' can sometimes fail in the gnulib/tests subdirectory, when doing an incremental build, because ./bootstrap generates a Makefile.am that tries to refer to ../../.. instead of ../.., and gets lost. This may be an upstream gnulib bug, where a more elegant solution will present itself in the future: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/24898 But in the meantime, I was able to reproduce both the issue, and this solution to work around it. * bootstrap.conf (bootstrap_epilogue): Ensure that no stray ../../.. components remain in gnulib/tests/Makefile.in. Reported by Serge Hallyn. --- bootstrap.conf | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf index 88832d1..14d5ace 100644 --- a/bootstrap.conf +++ b/bootstrap.conf @@ -168,0 +168,0 @@ touch ChangeLog || exit 1 bootstrap_epilogue() { - # Change paths in gnulib/tests/Makefile.am from "../../.." to "../..". + # Change paths in gnulib/tests/Makefile.am from "../../.." to "../..", + # then ensure that gnulib/tests/Makefile.in is up-to-date. m=gnulib/tests/Makefile.am sed 's,\.\./\.\./\.\.,../..,g' $m > $m-t mv -f $m-t $m + ${AUTOMAKE-automake} gnulib/tests/Makefile }