Holger Freyther &lt;holger(a)freyther.de&gt; writes: Again, the log (also on Debian jessie amd64): make dist-bzip2 am__post_remove_distdir='@:' make[1]: Entering directory '/home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/_build' if test -d "libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58"; then find "libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58" -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -rf "libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58" || { sleep 5 && rm -rf "libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58"; }; else :; fi test -d "libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58" || mkdir "libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58" (cd include && make top_distdir=../libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58 distdir=../libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58/include \ am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: distdir) make[2]: Entering directory '/home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/_build/include' make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/_build/include' (cd src && make top_distdir=../libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58 distdir=../libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58/src \ am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: distdir) make[2]: Entering directory '/home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/_build/src' make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/_build/src' (cd tests && make top_distdir=../libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58 distdir=../libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58/tests \ am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: distdir) make[2]: Entering directory '/home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/_build/tests' :;{ \ echo '# Signature of the current package.' && \ echo 'm4_define([AT_PACKAGE_NAME],' && \ echo ' [libosmo-abis])' && \ echo 'm4_define([AT_PACKAGE_TARNAME],' && \ echo ' [libosmo-abis])' && \ echo 'm4_define([AT_PACKAGE_VERSION],' && \ echo ' [0.3.1.2-3a58])' && \ echo 'm4_define([AT_PACKAGE_STRING],' && \ echo ' [libosmo-abis 0.3.1.2-3a58])' && \ echo 'm4_define([AT_PACKAGE_BUGREPORT],' && \ echo ' [openbsc(a)lists.osmocom.org])&#39;#39;; \ echo 'm4_define([AT_PACKAGE_URL],' && \ echo ' [])'; \ } >'../../tests/package.m4' /bin/bash ../../missing --run autom4te --language=autotest -I '../../tests' -o ../../tests/testsuite.tmp ../../tests/testsuite.at mv ../../tests/testsuite.tmp ../../tests/testsuite make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/_build/tests' make \ top_distdir="libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58" distdir="libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58" \ dist-hook make[2]: Entering directory '/home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/_build' echo 0.3.1.2-3a58 > libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58/.tarball-version make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/_build' test -n "" \ || find "libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58" -type d ! -perm -755 \ -exec chmod u+rwx,go+rx {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -444 -links 1 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -400 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -444 -exec /bin/bash /home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/install-sh -c -m a+r {} {} \; \ || chmod -R a+r "libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58" tardir=libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58 && ${TAR-tar} chof - "$tardir" | BZIP2=${BZIP2--9} bzip2 -c >libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58.tar.bz2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/_build' if test -d "libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58"; then find "libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58" -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -rf "libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58" || { sleep 5 && rm -rf "libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58"; }; else :; fi case 'libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58.tar.bz2' in \ *.tar.gz*) \ GZIP=--best gzip -dc libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58.tar.gz | ${TAR-tar} xf - ;;\ *.tar.bz2*) \ bzip2 -dc libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58.tar.bz2 | ${TAR-tar} xf - ;;\ *.tar.lz*) \ lzip -dc libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58.tar.lz | ${TAR-tar} xf - ;;\ *.tar.xz*) \ xz -dc libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58.tar.xz | ${TAR-tar} xf - ;;\ *.tar.Z*) \ uncompress -c libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58.tar.Z | ${TAR-tar} xf - ;;\ *.shar.gz*) \ GZIP=--best gzip -dc libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58.shar.gz | unshar ;;\ *.zip*) \ unzip libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58.zip ;;\ esac chmod -R a-w libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58 chmod u+w libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58 mkdir libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58/_build libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58/_inst chmod a-w libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58 test -d libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58/_build || exit 0; \ dc_install_base=`CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58/_inst && pwd | sed -e 's,^[^:\\/]:[\\/],/,'` \ && dc_destdir="${TMPDIR-/tmp}/am-dc-$$/" \ && am__cwd=`pwd` \ && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58/_build \ && ../configure \ \ \ --srcdir=.. --prefix="$dc_install_base" \ && make \ && make dvi \ && make check \ && make install \ && make installcheck \ && make uninstall \ && make distuninstallcheck_dir="$dc_install_base" \ distuninstallcheck \ && chmod -R a-w "$dc_install_base" \ && ({ \ (cd ../.. && umask 077 && mkdir "$dc_destdir") \ && make DESTDIR="$dc_destdir" install \ && make DESTDIR="$dc_destdir" uninstall \ && make DESTDIR="$dc_destdir" \ distuninstallcheck_dir="$dc_destdir" distuninstallcheck; \ } || { rm -rf "$dc_destdir"; exit 1; }) \ && rm -rf "$dc_destdir" \ && make dist \ && rm -rf libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58.tar.bz2 \ && make distcleancheck \ && cd "$am__cwd" \ || exit 1 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... 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GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking if gcc supports -fvisibility=hidden... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for LIBOSMOCORE... yes checking for LIBOSMOVTY... yes checking for LIBOSMOGSM... yes checking for ORTP... yes checking for ORTP_VERSION... yes checking dahdi/user.h usability... no checking dahdi/user.h presence... no checking for dahdi/user.h... no configure: WARNING: DAHDI input driver will not be built checking that generated files are newer than configure... done configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating libosmoabis.pc config.status: creating libosmotrau.pc config.status: creating include/Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating tests/Makefile config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: executing tests/atconfig commands config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing libtool commands make[1]: Entering directory '/home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/_build/libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58/_build' echo 0.3.1.2-3a58 > ../.version-t && mv ../.version-t ../.version /bin/bash: ../.version-t: Permission denied Makefile:879: recipe for target '../.version' failed make[1]: *** [../.version] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/.big/rotty/src/_readonly/libosmo-abis/_build/libosmo-abis-0.3.1.2-3a58/_build' Makefile:665: recipe for target 'distcheck' failed make: *** [distcheck] Error 1 The build steps were the usual (git clone, autoreconf, mkdir _build, cd _build, configure, make distcheck). Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.xx.vu/>

Holger Freyther &lt;holger(a)freyther.de&gt; writes: No, this is misleading; I use the _readonly directory for stuff I don't intend to touch (much). However, automake makes the unpacked tarball (containing $(top_srcdir), obviously) readonly during "make distcheck". Regarding generating ".version" into the build dir: the way I fixed things is the way is consistent with the recipe in git-version-gen (implied in the text of the git-version-gen revision in libosmo-abis, explicit in newer versions). Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.xx.vu/>