qmake "make dist" not including my DISTFILES

[taraj]

Hello,

I have a .pro file and in it i declare some DISTFILES. some of these files are from the current directory and some are from another directory (../bin/)

DISTFILES  += \
    a_status.sh \
    a_tracks.sh \
    a_monitor.sh \
    ../bin/AApp \
    ../bin/LApp.xml

DISTFILES  += \
    a_status.sh \
    a_tracks.sh \
    a_monitor.sh \
    ../bin/AApp \
    ../bin/LApp.xml

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when i do a qmake I can see them all in the Makefile:

DIST          =  a_status.sh \
		a_tracks.sh \
		a_monitor.sh \
		../bin/AApp \
		../bin/LApp.xml \

DIST          =  a_status.sh \
		a_tracks.sh \
		a_monitor.sh \
		../bin/AApp \
		../bin/LApp.xml \

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Then i do a make dist and when i look in the tar.gz file all files are there except for the 2 files from the ../bin directory which are not there. If i put the 2 files in the same directory as the scripts it works fine (but i don't want to do this) so when I do a rpmbuild -ta xxxNumber.tar.gz, this then of course fails as there is no ../bin/* files.

How do i get it to include files from other directories other than the directory the .pro file lives in?

Thank you.

[yogeshgokul]

You can try and play with a couple of options and see. Just for testing:

1. Try to remove all other files and keep only 1 file in your DISTFILES list, like DISTFILES = ../bin/LApp.xml
2. Try to enlist the files comma or space separated
3. Try to make multiple +=(append) into the variable DISTFILES

[taraj]

Thanks for the reply. It got me thinking and the problem is in the Makefile.
It looks like this:

COPY_FILE     = cp -f -R
 
dist: distdir FORCE
	(cd `dirname $(DISTDIR)` && $(TAR) $(DISTNAME).tar $(DISTNAME) && $(COMPRESS) $(DISTNAME).tar) && $(MOVE) `dirname $(DISTDIR)`/$(DISTNAME).tar.gz . && $(DEL_FILE) #-r $(DISTDIR)
distdir: FORCE
	@test -d $(DISTDIR) || mkdir -p $(DISTDIR)
	$(COPY_FILE) --parents $(DIST) $(DISTDIR)/
	$(COPY_FILE) --parents /../lib64/qt5/mkspecs/features/data/dummy.cpp $(DISTDIR)/
	$(COPY_FILE) --parents <a list of my header files> $(DISTDIR)/
	$(COPY_FILE) --parents <a list of my source files> $(DISTDIR)/

COPY_FILE     = cp -f -R

dist: distdir FORCE
	(cd `dirname $(DISTDIR)` && $(TAR) $(DISTNAME).tar $(DISTNAME) && $(COMPRESS) $(DISTNAME).tar) && $(MOVE) `dirname $(DISTDIR)`/$(DISTNAME).tar.gz . && $(DEL_FILE) #-r $(DISTDIR)
distdir: FORCE
	@test -d $(DISTDIR) || mkdir -p $(DISTDIR)
	$(COPY_FILE) --parents $(DIST) $(DISTDIR)/
	$(COPY_FILE) --parents /../lib64/qt5/mkspecs/features/data/dummy.cpp $(DISTDIR)/
	$(COPY_FILE) --parents <a list of my header files> $(DISTDIR)/
	$(COPY_FILE) --parents <a list of my source files> $(DISTDIR)/

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From my source directory I run the test command

cp -f -R --parents ../bin/LApp.xml /tmp

cp -f -R --parents ../bin/LApp.xml /tmp

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and it fails to copy the file to the tmp directory.

I would have thought the copy options would have been able to handle copying the LApp.xml file? But no.

If i remove the --parents from this line ($(COPY_FILE) --parents $(DIST) $(DISTDIR)/) then it works...

but my problem now is that my Makefile is generated from a .pro with qmake.... how do I get it to remove the --parents from the line in the Makefile without having to manually remove it every time i do a qmake?

Thanks.