bug#79049: ChangeLog is added to distribution even when inside a false conditional

2025-07-20 Thread Tomas Volf
Karl Berry writes: > Thanks for the report and looking into the code. There have been > previous reports relating to targets and conditionals, e.g., > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13940 (from 2013 ...) > and I think it's been mentioned in mail and elsewhere, too. > > Updating the

bug#79049: ChangeLog is added to distribution even when inside a false conditional

2025-07-19 Thread Karl Berry
Thanks for the report and looking into the code. There have been previous reports relating to targets and conditionals, e.g., https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13940 (from 2013 ...) and I think it's been mentioned in mail and elsewhere, too. Updating the doc is no problem, thanks. But

bug#79049: ChangeLog is added to distribution even when inside a false conditional

2025-07-19 Thread Tomas Volf
Hello, when you have a rule to generate ChangeLog inside a conditional, the file is always added to am__DIST_COMMON, even when the conditional is false. This leads to a failure to build the tarball, since the ChangeLog file nor the rule to build it exist. I suspect it might be a bug. Following