Hi Mimi, ... > 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. Thanks for fixing it. foreign flavor fits our needs better than gnu. Autotools "features" like this (having strange gnu flavor as the default) explain why people keep introducing new build systems like Meson (which brings other problems). Kind regards, Petr > Mimi > [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#index-automake-options > [2] https://autotools.io/automake/options.html
