[RFC] Dynamic ChangeLog generation script (was Re: [augeas-devel] ChangeLog)

[David Lutterkort]

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:19 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:07 PM, David Lutterkort <dlutter at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 13:46 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> >> Quick patch attached. If gmail messes it up you can see it here:
> >> http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/patches/augeas/augeas-auto-generate-ChangeLog.patch
> >
> > Cool .. I committed that (and removed the mepty ChangeLog from hg)
> >
> >> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jeff/svn/software/augeas/gnulib/lib'
> >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jeff/svn/software/augeas/gnulib/lib'
> >> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jeff/svn/software/augeas/src'
> >> /bin/bash ../build/aux/ylwrap lexer.l .c lexer.c -- :
> >> make[1]: *** [lexer.c] Error 1
> >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jeff/svn/software/augeas/src'
> >> make: *** [distdir] Error 1
> >
> > Weird .. it works on my Fedora 9 machine. What OS/arch is that on ?
> > Anything more informative about the failure further back in the log ?
> 
> Linux jschroeder2 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 16:35:01 UTC 2008
> i686 GNU/Linux
> Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) 32 bit.
> 
> "logsave augeas-build-failure.log make" attached

Seems like something went wrong during configure. Do you have flex
installed ? On my machine, the ylwrap invocation is

        /bin/sh ../build/aux/ylwrap lexer.l lex.yy.c lexer.c -- flex 
        
Does your config.log contain any complaints about lex or flex ?

David