[libvirt] [PATCH v3] Autogenerate AUTHORS

[Cole Robinson]

On 10/19/2012 12:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/18/2012 09:33 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 10/18/2012 05:20 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> AUTHORS.in tracks the maintainers, as well as some folks who were
>>> previously in AUTHORS but don't have a git commit with proper
>>> attribution.
>>>
>>> Generated output is sorted alphabetically and lacks pretty spacing, so
>>> tweak AUTHORS.in to follow the same format.
>>>
>>> Additionally, drop the syntax-check rule that previously validated
>>> AUTHORS against git log.
>>> ---
>>>
>>> I couldn't get the latter chunk of sed magic working... and since nothing
>>> really makes me reach my frustration limit faster than Makefiles and
>>> shell trickery, I just stuck with the basic changes.
>>
>> Fair enough.  I guess if I want it any fancier, I'll actually have to
>> test my stuff :)
>>
>> ACK
> 
> Squash this in, so that people doing incremental upgrades aren't bitten
> by a nasty-gram from automake about AUTHORS not existing:
> 
> diff --git i/cfg.mk w/cfg.mk
> index eed7fd8..d3c96ba 100644
> --- i/cfg.mk
> +++ w/cfg.mk
> @@ -699,6 +699,7 @@ ifeq (0,$(MAKELEVEL))
>    _clean_requested = $(filter %clean,$(MAKECMDGOALS))
>    ifeq (1,$(_update_required)$(_clean_requested))
>      $(info INFO: gnulib update required; running ./autogen.sh first)
> +    $(shell touch $(srcdir)/AUTHORS $(srcdir)/ChangeLog)
>  maint.mk Makefile: _autogen
>    endif
>  endif
> 

Thanks Eric, pushed with that change, and the switch to `` over $()

- Cole