ChangeLog generation (was: GnuCash 2.1.2 Released)

[Vladimir Weinstein]

-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