Hi - > That is certainly a bug, dist targets shouldn't be conditional.
Thanks! > [...] > > But I think the root cause is more the continued reliance > > on "make dist", made necessary by the exclusion of generated autoconf* > > materiel in the source tree. > > I really don't think putting generated file into git is a good idea. > You get all those issues that gcc, binutils and gdb have where you need > all this extra CI just to make sure people use the "correct" tools to > regenerate the files. That need always seemed overstated. The tools are "correct" if they work (to configure/build elfutils on the platforms & configurations of interest), even if they are not the freshest upstream or a particular distro version. If some developer manages to push in an unsatisfactory version, any other developer (or a bot) can regen and fix it. It seems to me a non-problem. - FChE
