Running "make distcheck" from a non-srcdir build was failing like this: /bin/sh: ./apibuild.py: No such file or directory Fixed that with the first patch below (the apibuild.py script is not in ".", but in $(srcdir)). Then retrying, it got a little further but failed like this: (../../docs/apibuild.py) make[3]: *** No rule to make target `sitemap.html.in', needed by `html/index.html'. Stop. That was because sitemap.html.in was not being distributed. Adding it to EXTRA_DIST solved that: From: Jim Meyering <meyering(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:18:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] build: avoid non-srcdir installation failure (apibuild.py) * docs/Makefile.am (libvirt-api.xml): Insert missing "$(srcdir)/". --- docs/Makefile.am | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/Makefile.am b/docs/Makefile.am index cce7a48..26b1d29 100644 --- a/docs/Makefile.am +++ b/docs/Makefile.am @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ devhelp/index.html devhelp/libvirt.devhelp: libvirt-api.xml $(devhelpxsl) libvirt-api.xml libvirt-refs.xml: apibuild.py \ $(srcdir)/../include/libvirt/*.h \ $(srcdir)/../src/libvirt.c $(srcdir)/../src/util/virterror.c - -(./apibuild.py) + -($(srcdir)/apibuild.py) clean-local: rm -f *~ *.bak *.hierarchy *.signals *-unused.txt -- 1.7.0.367.g566c3 From: Jim Meyering <meyering(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:15:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] build: avoid non-srcdir installation failure (sitemap.html.in) * docs/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add sitemap.html.in. --- docs/Makefile.am | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/Makefile.am b/docs/Makefile.am index 26b1d29..4828752 100644 --- a/docs/Makefile.am +++ b/docs/Makefile.am @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST= \ $(devhelphtml) $(devhelppng) $(devhelpcss) $(devhelpxsl) \ $(xml) $(fig) $(png) \ $(patches) \ + sitemap.html.in \ ChangeLog.awk CLEANFILES = $(dot_html) $(apihtml) $(devhelphtml) -- 1.7.0.367.g566c3