xf86-video-nv: 5 commits - compat/.gitignore configure.ac .gitignore Makefile.am man/.gitignore

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:34:53PM -0800, Aaron Plattner wrote:
> This causes a significant amount of breakage.  ChangeLog is now no longer
> cleaned by any of the automake clean commands, including maintainer-clean.
> Also, it causes dist to fail when --prefix was not specified:
> 
> $ make dist
> (GIT_DIR=./.git git log > ./.changelog.tmp && mv ./.changelog.tmp ./ChangeLog) || (rm -f ./.changelog.tmp; touch ./ChangeLog; echo 'git directory not found: installing possibly empty changelog.' >&2)
> if test -f NONE/share/doc/util-macros/INSTALL; then cp -f NONE/share/doc/util-macros/INSTALL .; else echo 'NONE/share/doc/util-macros/INSTALL cannot be found.' >&2; fi 
> NONE/share/doc/util-macros/INSTALL cannot be found.
> { test ! -d "xf86-video-nv-2.1.15" || { find "xf86-video-nv-2.1.15" -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -fr "xf86-video-nv-2.1.15"; }; }
> test -d "xf86-video-nv-2.1.15" || mkdir "xf86-video-nv-2.1.15"
> cp: cannot stat `./INSTALL': No such file or directory
> make: *** [distdir] Error 1
> 

Have you tried updating util/macros?  Much of that functionality has moved
into the default macros section now - updating certainly fixed the issue for
me and both make dist and make distcheck work fine now.

See also the last few commits on http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/macros/

Cheers,
  Peter