Stepan Kasal wrote: > Andreas Schwab wrote: > > If you use AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign then automake should not complain. > > yes, this is good note, thanks. I wanted to keep the gnu strictness, > since I hoped Automake would also check other things for me. > > But perhaps this is the best solution, after all...
If the choice is a generated ChangeLog or using 'foreign' then a third choice would be to use ChangeLog as a small pointer describing how to get the change log information from version control. I do that on some work projects that have not previously kept a ChangeLog. If a ChangeLog file exists then the check is satisfied. Bob
