Re: release testing: Debian

Richard Levitte <[email protected]> writes:

> In message <[email protected]> on Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:29:31 -0500, Stephen Leake <[email protected]> said:
>
> stephen_leake> Stephen Leake <[email protected]> writes:
> stephen_leake> 
> stephen_leake> > I'm starting ...  'make distcheck' on Debian;
> stephen_leake> 
> stephen_leake> This is failing with:
> stephen_leake> 
> stephen_leake> monotone-ciabot.py does not support --help
> stephen_leake> monotone-ciabot.py does not support --version
> stephen_leake> 
> stephen_leake> Apparently distcheck verifies that installed
> stephen_leake> executables support standard options.
>
> Do you have the following in your Makefile.am?  That prevents what
> you're experiencing, or should:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Some of the smaller programs do not have --help or --version,
> # make them exempt of the check for those.  NOTE: use this sparingly!
> AM_INSTALLCHECK_STD_OPTIONS_EXEMPT = \
> 	extra/bin/mtn-cleanup 	extra/mtn-hooks/monotone-ciabot.py	\
> 	extra/mtn-hooks/monotone-mail-notify
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If you don't have those lines, chances are your workspace isn't quite
> up to date...

They are there. Looking at the actual Makefile, it seems you are missing
a space after the .py. It took a while to figure out how to get the
spaces right; fixed in bc5ba0e6087fcaf021f3e1c613f4fa1d260e1945

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