"make dist" updates the ChangeLogs automatically.

When creating a distribution "make dist" now uses the
commits-to-changelog script to automatically update all
ChangeLog files since the last commit marked with the
"last-commit-with-compulsory-changelog-entry" tag.

Makefile.am

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS = EXTERNAL_MCS=false EXTERNAL_RUNTIME=false
 
 # Distribute the 'mcs' tree too
 dist-hook:
+	./scripts/commits-to-changelog.py --root=$(distdir) last-commit-with-compulsory-changelog-entry
 	test -d $(distdir)/mcs || mkdir $(distdir)/mcs
 	d=`cd $(distdir)/mcs && pwd`; cd $(mcs_topdir) && $(MAKE) distdir=$$d dist-recursive
 

scripts/commits-to-changelog.py

@@ -228,11 +228,16 @@ def append_lines (file, lines):
 def main ():
     usage = "usage: %prog [options] <start-commit>"
     parser = OptionParser (usage)
+    parser.add_option ("-r", "--root", dest = "root", help = "Root directory of the working tree to be changed")
     (options, args) = parser.parse_args ()
     if len (args) != 1:
         parser.error ("incorrect number of arguments")
     start_commit = args [0]
 
+    if options.root:
+        global path_to_root
+        path_to_root = options.root + "/"
+
     for filename in git ("ls-tree", "-r", "--name-only", "HEAD").splitlines ():
         if re.search ("(^|/)Change[Ll]og$", filename):
             (path, name) = os.path.split (filename)