Don’t check in outut to see if robots exsit (Issue #2098)

da2x · da2x · commit dac0a626ed2a · 2015-09-17T20:38:10.000+02:00
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+New in Master
+=============
+
+Features
+--------
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+* /robots.txt was never being built (Issue #2098)
+
 New in v7.7.1
 =============
 
diff --git a/nikola/plugins/task/robots.py b/nikola/plugins/task/robots.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def write_robots():
 
         yield self.group_task()
 
-        if not utils.get_asset_path("robots.txt", [], files_folders=kw["files_folders"]):
+        if not utils.get_asset_path("robots.txt", [], files_folders=kw["files_folders"], output_dir=False):
             yield utils.apply_filters({
                 "basename": self.name,
                 "name": robots_path,
diff --git a/nikola/utils.py b/nikola/utils.py
@@ -1002,9 +1002,10 @@ def get_asset_path(path, themes, files_folders={'files': ''}, _themes_dir='theme
         if os.path.isfile(candidate):
             return candidate
 
-    candidate = os.path.join(output_dir, path)
-    if os.path.isfile(candidate):
-        return candidate
+    if output_dir:
+        candidate = os.path.join(output_dir, path)
+        if os.path.isfile(candidate):
+            return candidate
 
     # whatever!
     return None
