"make" works. "make distcheck" doesn't.
by hazel from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6JX6W)
I am converting some programs I wrote from gtk2 to gtk3, and making some other minor changes on the way.
The particular package that is giving me grief started out as a simple buttonbar to launch preselected programs and then acquired a couple of extra bits of desktop furniture: a mount tool (based on the one in Damn Small Linux) and a trashcan. There are two subdirectories under src: barbarella and accessories. I want to use the same header barbarella.h in both directories but distcheck doesn't allow that, neither with a copy nor with a link.
What do I do?
The particular package that is giving me grief started out as a simple buttonbar to launch preselected programs and then acquired a couple of extra bits of desktop furniture: a mount tool (based on the one in Damn Small Linux) and a trashcan. There are two subdirectories under src: barbarella and accessories. I want to use the same header barbarella.h in both directories but distcheck doesn't allow that, neither with a copy nor with a link.
What do I do?