Re: make dist considered harmful: odd gotcha with building elfutils rpms

2024-06-15 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
mark wrote: > [...] Having each committer push generated files with their own > variant of the tools causes generates updates that are hard to sanity > check by others. Indeed. Luckily, configury changes are rare, and distractingly wordy generated-code-diffs are rarer. And if they are indeed

Re: make dist considered harmful: odd gotcha with building elfutils rpms

2024-06-12 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Frank, On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 12:58:46PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > > > But I think the root cause is more the continued reliance > > > on "make dist", made necessary by the exclusion of generated autoconf* > > > materiel in the source tree. > > > > I really don't think putting genera

Re: make dist considered harmful: odd gotcha with building elfutils rpms

2024-06-11 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi - > That is certainly a bug, dist targets shouldn't be conditional. Thanks! > [...] > > But I think the root cause is more the continued reliance > > on "make dist", made necessary by the exclusion of generated autoconf* > > materiel in the source tree. > > I really don't think putting gen

Re: make dist considered harmful: odd gotcha with building elfutils rpms

2024-06-11 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Frank, On Tue, 2024-06-11 at 10:30 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > While trying to get a reliable fedora-copr build of the git/master > snapshot of elfutils, I ran into a problem that took me too long to > figure out. I was running "make rpm" from an elfutils build tree, > which involves runn