[zeromq-dev] Q: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `distdir'.

[Kenneth Adam Miller]

After reading over things a bit more, one thing I did notice was that
distdir was a target in builds/msvc/ that succeeded but that the same was
attempted on builds/cmake but that actually was the one that succeeded.
After perusing builds/cmake myself, I could see that there's no makefile in
there other than the makefile that was just created, Makefile.am with that
one test line. So, I now think a line needs to be added somewhere to tell
the autotools chain to derive the makefile for that directory.

Well, after some debugging, what I've found is that the Makefile generated
by automake has an incorrectly specified target.

build/msvc/Makefile:401 has the distdir target that you're are looking for,
and it get's correctly made-prior to failure. The makefile system tries to
build the distdir target twice. But the Makefile infrastructure doesn't see
that distdir should simply be one of the following:

marked a existenctial dependency; as in the timestamp is not checked. You
can do this with the syntax:

target: dependencies... | existential
    recipes...

Then in your existential it's usually a rule to call mkdir.

Or it can be marked with .phony/.PHONY

But I think the origin of the problem is in the makefile generation
infrastructure with automake-that has to be told so that the makefiles that
it generates will be correct.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:

> Ah... Sorry. It's make dist that fails.
> On 7 Aug 2015 21:11, "Kenneth Adam Miller" <kennethadammiller at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It's interesting that you got that. I made the edits to the two lines
>> that you mentioned, ran make again, and it ran to completion.
>>
>> What is the output of remake -x?
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Kenneth Adam Miller <
>> kennethadammiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, I'm working on it.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I didn't commit anything, it's really just the two lines I showed...
>>>> On 7 Aug 2015 15:56, "Kenneth Adam Miller" <kennethadammiller at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Where can I checkout something to debug what you've got? I'll work on
>>>>> it for you.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:29 AM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to fix issue #1505 by adding Makefile.am into each builds/
>>>>>> subdirectory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This fails miserably with "make[1]: *** No rule to make target
>>>>>> `distdir'.  Stop." even on the simplest example.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In libzmq/Makefile.am I added builds/cmake:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     DIST_SUBDIRS = builds/msvc builds/cmake doc
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And in that directory I added Makefile.am:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     EXTRA_DIST = Modules/FindAsciiDoc.cmake
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No matter what I try, I get this "No rule" error.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone know how to fix this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> Pieter
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