-rw-r--r-- 1 weiv wheel 479340 May 19 21:34 ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1 weiv wheel 76763 May 19 21:34 NEWS
This is how it looks like after running tar -xjvf ../gnucash-2.1.2.tar.bz2 Looks like they have the same timestamp. BTW - apart from this snag, 2.1.2. builds and (apparently) runs on MBP off Fink & extra installed swig. I'll put it through my paces in the next few days. Thanks! Regards, v. On May 20, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: > Thanks, Chris, for packaging up the new release! > > Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2007 19:09 schrieb Vladimir Weinstein: >> The download is missing http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/tags/ >> 2.1.2/macros/svn2cl.xsl file. >> For some reason, when I try to build on MacBookPro, make wants to >> generate ChangeLog using this file. If it is not present, the break >> builds at the start. If I download it, the build continues. > > Thanks for the info. The "ChangeLog generation" should be run if > and only if > the file "NEWS" is newer than "ChangeLog", which should happen only > if anyone > has modified the file "NEWS" manually but not run "make" since > then. Could > you please check whether this condition (NEWS newer than ChangeLog) > was given > on your MacBookPro before you had to download this file? Thanks. > > This is weird - for some people, the rule for generating the > ChangeLog seems > to be triggered. But it should be as follows: When Chris was > packaging it, > the rule triggered once (due to newer NEWS), but since then, > ChangeLog should > be newer than NEWS and hence the rule should *not* trigger for > anyone else > except Chris after changing NEWS. > > I think we have two, well, three options on how to handle this: > > 1: Add macros/svn2cl.xsl to EXTRA_DIST, so that when this rule for > whatever > reason triggeres anywhere, it will be executed normally: It > downloads the > approx. 300K of log info from svn.gnucash.org and runs xsltproc, > both of > which will consume quite some time :-( > > 2: Modify the ChangeLog rule so that if there is no $srcdir/macros/ > svn2cl.xsl > file, the ChangeLog file is touched and that's it. However, if for > whatever > other reason this doesn't execute the intended ChangeLog generation > at the > actual packaging time, we won't notice it here at all :-( > > 3: Modify the ChangeLog rule so that it doesn't depend on any > other file > anymore, hence the packager need to remember to run it manually before > running "make dist". However, yet another extra step is just prone > to be > forgotten :-( > > I'd propose #1 or #2. Other ideas? > > Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
