Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!jmsellens From: jmsellens@watmath.waterloo.edu Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.software Subject: xhier - putting Makefile-body in source directory doesn't work Message-ID: <29649@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 1 Oct 89 05:39:13 GMT Sender: jmsellens@watmath.waterloo.edu Reply-To: jmsellens@watmath.waterloo.edu Distribution: uw Lines: 10 From: John M SellensBecause you usually have multiple distribution hosts, and when you make distribute on the secondary machine it tries to make the makefile, and then complains because there is no Makefile-body and the DistributionLog is "non-trivial", and so never gets around to doing the distribute. I ran into this on mfcf-misc and will try to avoid it by moving the Makefile-body from the source directory to the package directory.