Hi Eric, Am 29.10.2014 13:47, schrieb Eric Blake: > On 10/29/2014 02:37 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK) wrote: >> In quite a few guides I saw people suggest using the foreign autoconf >> style to avoid having to create the required text files. > > s/foreign autoconf/foreign automake/ Ah, yes. I think I misguessed the project, because the style is defined in the configure.ac. I saw the gnulib script, but do not see how this is an argument *against* auto-generating the ChangeLog when it isn’t available. It rather looks like like integrating this as default behavior would make it unnecessary to patch around autotools requirements. People obviously already want that functionality. >> If autotools did this automatically, the barrier for using GNU style in >> the autotools with a version tracking system would be much smaller: Just >> write README and NEWS. > > autoconf can't do this automatically, but gnulib can. Why *can’t* autoconf or automake do this automatically? Best wishes, Arne -- Doktorand Gruppe: GHG Raum: 435/410 Tel.: +49 721 608-22885 arne.babenhauserheide@xxxxxxx Karlsruher Institut für Technologie IMK-ASF Postfach 36 40 76021 Karlsruhe
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