Fixed "make distcheck" (finally)

Also fixed "make dist" from read-only unpacked tarball.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 4bbf92e7..65674601 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -58,11 +58,18 @@ dist-hook: dist-po
           rm -f '$(distdir)/pre-dist-hook-dummy'
         @rm -f pre-dist-hook-dummy
 
-pre-dist-hook:
+pre-dist-hook: pre-dist-hook-doc
         @echo "Preparing to make dist"
-        @$(am__cd) doc && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) update-stamp
 
-.PHONY: pre-dist-hook
+pre-dist-hook-doc:
+        @echo "Preparing to make dist in doc"
+        @if test -w '$(top_srcdir)/doc' ; then \
+          $(am__cd) doc && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) update-stamp; \
+        else \
+          echo "Source tree is read-only, skipping force doc update"; \
+        fi;
+
+.PHONY: pre-dist-hook pre-dist-hook-doc
 
 distclean-local: distclean-po