On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 13:54 +0200, Petr Vorel wrote: > 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). Changing the autotools flavor solved the problem, but I wasn't sure that it was the correct solution. Thank you for validating the flavor change. Mimi
