Re: [Libcdio-devel] Adding required m4 files

[R. Bernstein]

Peter Creath writes:
 > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:11 PM, R. Bernstein <address@hidden> 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.