Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

2014-10-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK)
Am 30.10.2014 10:15, schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò: > On 30 October 2014 06:45, Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK) > wrote: >> Am 30.10.2014 00:43, schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò: >> I don’t want to change the GNU style. I want to have an easier way to >> *adhere to* the existing GNU st

Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

2014-10-29 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK)
Hi Flameeyes, Am 30.10.2014 00:43, schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò: > All good and well, but then I may have misunderstood Arne's original > point. If he's trying to get the GNU style to be "good enough" That means I did not make my point clear enough. Second try: I don’t want to change the GNU sty

Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

2014-10-29 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK)
Dear GNU Hackers, In quite a few guides I saw people suggest using the foreign automake style to avoid having to create the required text files. The goal of this email is to get more people to use the GNU style, so the interface for understanding an autotools project becomes more consistent agai

how to silence make distcheck?

2014-07-15 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK)
Hi, I’m using silent rules with automake and I can silence make check by using autoreconf -i ./configure --quiet make check --quiet But when I run make distcheck --quiet, I get the full configure output and $(AM_V_P) seems to not be set in the Makefile. autoreconf -i make

Re: Managing Emacs org-mode projects with automake - how to make this easier?

2013-10-25 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK)
Am 24.10.2013 20:45, schrieb Gavin Smith: > From your link: >> I use pyxplot for generating some plots. Pyxplot does not have a way (I know >> of) to search for datafiles in a different folder. I have to copy the files >> to the build dir and kill them after the build. But only if I use a separat

Managing Emacs org-mode projects with automake - how to make this easier?

2013-10-22 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK)
Dear Automake hackers, I am using autotools to build org-mode projects and prepare them for publication. The nice part is that `make distcheck` does the hard work of checking whether all the required parts are in the distribution. The not so nice part is, though, that the Makefile.am looks quite