Commit 71d1256 tried to fix a problem where rebasing an old
branch on top of newer libvirt.git resulted in automake failing
because of a missing AUTHORS file. However, while the fix
worked for an incremental 'make', it did not work for someone
that directly reran './autogen.sh'. Reported by
On 12/03/2012 03:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
Commit 71d1256 tried to fix a problem where rebasing an old
branch on top of newer libvirt.git resulted in automake failing
because of a missing AUTHORS file. However, while the fix
worked for an incremental 'make', it did not work for someone
that
On 12/03/2012 03:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
Commit 71d1256 tried to fix a problem where rebasing an old
branch on top of newer libvirt.git resulted in automake failing
because of a missing AUTHORS file. However, while the fix
worked for an incremental 'make', it did not work for someone
that
Commit 71d1256 tried to fix a problem where rebasing an old
branch on top of newer libvirt.git resulted in automake failing
because of a missing AUTHORS file. However, while the fix
worked for an incremental 'make', it did not work for someone
that directly reran './autogen.sh'.
I'm not sure how if it impacts this particular change, but why don't
we switch
to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) ? Since AUTHORS or ChangeLog are no
longer
static, it seems we are just causing ourselves pain by trying to work
around
auto* insisting those files exist.
Then again I don't know
On 12/03/2012 05:37 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
I'm not sure how if it impacts this particular change, but why don't
we switch
to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) ? Since AUTHORS or ChangeLog are no
longer
static, it seems we are just causing ourselves pain by trying to work
around
auto* insisting
