Peter Creath writes: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:11 PM, R. Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because it was there and getting turned on, I used it to add a rule > > the regenreate the ChangeLog which I do just before a release. The > > ChangeLog target assumes you have cvs2cl which I suspect many people > > won't have. > > > > As long as we keep some way to regenerate ChangeLog either as another > > conditional or make it unconditional, I'm cool. Again, I'm not wedded > > to this crap. > > But ChangeLog only gets regenerated for make dist* targets, right? Right.
> Most people won't be doing that. Right. The way things work right now is that target is commented out unless --enable-maintainer-mode has been set. autogen.sh adds that flag by default. Although one can get a log of changes directly from CVS, people who check out from version control also have have a way to create a ChangeLog via "make ChangeLog". And some of those people who check out from CVS need to do make the ChangeLog for the release, which is what the dist* targets automatically do.
