Hello, I've been playing with automatic rebuilds of GNU tar against Fedora/EPEL a bit, and the recent commits in 'master' branch seem to break the build process from git [2]:
+ make dist-xz make distdir-am make[1]: Entering directory '/workdir/tar' if test -d .git; then \ cmd=./build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog; \ if test -n "2009-03-06"; then \ cmd="$cmd --since=\"2009-03-06\""; \ fi; \ if test -n "ChangeLog.amend"; then \ cmd="$cmd --amend=ChangeLog.amend"; \ fi; \ $cmd --format='%s%n%n%b%n' | \ sed '/<unknown>$/d' | fmt -s > ./cl-t; \ if test -n "ChangeLog.CVS" && test -f "ChangeLog.CVS"; \ then \ echo "" >> ./cl-t; \ cat "ChangeLog.CVS" | \ sed '/^Local Variables:/,/^End:/d' >> ./cl-t; \ fi; \ echo "Local Variables:" >> ./cl-t; \ echo "mode: change-log" >> ./cl-t; \ echo "version-control: never" >> ./cl-t; \ echo "buffer-read-only: t" >> ./cl-t; \ echo "End:" >> ./cl-t; \ rm -f ./ChangeLog; \ mv ./cl-t ./ChangeLog; \ fi Can't locate object method "new" via package "Safe" (perhaps you forgot to load "Safe"?) at ./build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog line 326, <PIPE> line 545. NEWS not updated; not releasing make[1]: *** [Makefile:1660: distdir-am] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/workdir/tar' make: *** [Makefile:1657: distdir] Error 2 [1] https://github.com/praiskup/tar/commits/ci [2] https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/praiskup/tar-upstream-head/srpm-builds/03032192/builder-live.log.gz Pavel