On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:40 -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote:

HI all,

Sorry if this is a noob question, but i am trying to build the tarballs for inkscape from trunk, and am running into issues.

When trying to run "make dist", I get the following errors:

make dist-bzip2 dist-gzip dist-zip am__post_remove_distdir='@:' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/.../source/inkscape' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `mkinstalldirs', needed by `distdir'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/.../source/inkscape' make: *** [dist] Error 2

is there a "mkinstalldirs" target?

Yes, this is because our build system is incomplete. From what I understand the mkinstalldirs script was not included/removed from the automake packages and thus needs to be copied into any source tree that uses it.

I pinched mine from some other source repository online. Saved it in the source root and it started working.

Ted: Is there any way to fix this permanently? It'd be nice for casuals to be able to make dist without a hic-up.

Martin,