[GNC-dev] 'make' before 'make dist'?

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 11/13/19 5:18 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>
>> On Nov 13, 2019, at 4:45 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
>>
>> Decided to reorg within the GnuCash directory.  Created Source and Build
>> sub-directories and redid the clone with a v3.7 workfile for git tag of
>> 3.7 under Source.
>>
>> Went to Build and created gnucash-3.7 directory and cd'd into it. 
>> Attempted the cmake (worked fine) and make dist (failed).  I then
>> cleaned the folder and did the cmake again followed by a make (which
>> failed with the below list).  But that then allowed the make dist to work.
>>
>> Try #1
>>
>> cmake --WITH_PYTHON=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../../Source/v3.7
>>
>> make dist
>>
>> Scanning dependencies of target dist-bindings-python-gnucash-core-c
>> [  0%] Generating gnucash_core.c, gnucash_core_c.py
>> [  0%] Built target dist-bindings-python-gnucash-core-c
>> Scanning dependencies of target dist-ChangeLog
>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'ChangeLog', needed by
>> 'CMakeFiles/dist-ChangeLog'.  Stop.
>> make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:132:
>> CMakeFiles/dist-ChangeLog.dir/all] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:107: CMakeFiles/dist.dir/rule] Error 2
>> make: *** [Makefile:197: dist] Error 2

<<snip>>


>> Is this normal having to do a 'make' before doing 'make dist'?  Is there
>> something that 'make' is doing that is needed by 'make dist'?
>>       |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Nope, it's https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797407.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
The above part of that same bug?

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