From: Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: Get rid of empty AUTHORS file (patch) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:41:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20081020185346.GC25796@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, bfields@fieldses.org To: steved@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:48228 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753297AbYJTTlp (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:41:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081020185346.GC25796@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Monday 2008-10-20 14:53, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 08:48:11PM -0400, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> the AUTHORS file reads: >> >> This is a dummy AUTHORS file to make automake happy. >> >> You can make automake happy in an IMO better way: >> >> AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign >> >> at the top of the toplevel Makefile.am. >> (I usually also prefer "AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = subdir-objs" next to >> foreign.) > >The quickest way to get changes into nfs-utils these days is a patch >sent to steved@redhat.com against git://linux-nfs.org/nfs-utils. commit 81d1d9fbab29e45fbdb27a2e0df011f6cd00714a Author: Jan Engelhardt Date: Mon Oct 20 15:40:27 2008 -0400 build: remove redundant AUTHORS file One can use the --foreign automake option to make it not enforce presence of an AUTHORS file. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt --- AUTHORS | 1 - Makefile.am | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 AUTHORS mode change 100644 => 100755 autogen.sh diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS deleted file mode 100644 index 9205d1e..0000000 --- a/AUTHORS +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -This is a dummy AUTHORS file to make automake happy. diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index ec8e832..88ae210 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in +AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign + SUBDIRS = tools support utils linux-nfs MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = Makefile.in diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh old mode 100644 new mode 100755