On Wed, 2020-07-22 at 11:31 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote: > On Wed, 2020-07-22 at 16:50 +0200, Petr Vorel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ... > > > > Really annoying having to include an empty file, but without it, > > > > autoconf fails with: > > > > > > Makefile.am: error: required file './NEWS' not found > > > > src/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp' > > > > autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 > > > > > Maybe current ChangeLog should be renamed to NEWS? > > > > > git log is better changelog, and ChangeLog is really condensed and > > > suitable to be NEWS. > > +1, good idea. > > Sure, thank you for the suggestion. I'll queue this change and any > other change(s) in the "next" branch for a minor release. After renaming "ChangeLog" to "NEWS" as discussed, autotools now complains about the missing "ChangeLog" file. automake has a number of flavors[1][2]. The "foreign" flavor, which can be supplied as an option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, doesn't require the NEWS, COPYING, AUTHORS, ChangeLog, or README files to exist. Although renaming the files didn't help, it makes sense. The patch does both - renames ChangeLog and uses the "foreign" option. Mimi [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#index-a utomake-options [2] https://autotools.io/automake/options.html
