Bruno Haible [2025-01-10 12:58 +0100] wrote: > Basil L. Contovounesios wrote: >> Does this imply that writing to a temporary file first is never needed >> under distdir? > > No. It's never needed under $(distdir) *if* the Makefile rule fails when the > command fails. [...] > What is desired, is that "make dist" fails in this situation. > That is: > > gen-ChangeLog: > $(AM_V_GEN)if test -e $(srcdir)/.git; then \ > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 TZ=UTC0 \ > $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog \ > --srcdir=$(srcdir) > $(distdir)/ChangeLog \ > || exit 1; \ > fi
Should 'make dist' also fail when $(srcdir)/.git does not exist (à la Automake's maintainer/maint.mk)? Or is that out of scope for this documentation example? > 2025-01-10 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> > > gitlog-to-changelog: Recommend more reliable Makefile rule idiom. Thanks again, -- Basil
