From c838e0428cd4c1566b78fb0d1aab398e86c37d6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Berry Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 18:30:53 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs: forgot TAR in NEWS; fix " -- " in manual. * NEWS: it seems the TAR envvar was never mentioned in NEWS; add it, back for 1.11.3 when it was apparently implemented. * doc/automake.texi: consistently use "---" instead of " --". --- NEWS | 1 + doc/automake.texi | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fc3f2dede..8650db050 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1389,6 +1389,7 @@ New in 1.11.3: script. Similarly, the obsolescent variable '$(AMTAR)' (which you shouldn't be using BTW ;-) no longer invokes the 'missing' script to wrap tar, but simply invokes the 'tar' program itself. + The TAR environment variable overrides. - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs. diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi index 332cac153..b2afca962 100644 --- a/doc/automake.texi +++ b/doc/automake.texi @@ -8419,7 +8419,7 @@ distribution. The file is named based on the @code{PACKAGE} and @code{AC_INIT} invocation or by a @emph{deprecated} two-arguments invocation of the @code{AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE} macro (see @ref{Public Macros} for how these variables get their values, from either defaults or explicit -values -- it's slightly trickier than one would expect). +values---it's slightly trickier than one would expect). More precisely the gzipped @code{tar} file is named @samp{$@{PACKAGE@}-$@{VERSION@}.tar.gz}. @@ -8882,7 +8882,7 @@ Sometimes, tests can rely on non-portable tools or prerequisites, or simply make no sense on a given system (for example, a test checking a Windows-specific feature makes no sense on a GNU/Linux system). In this case, accordingly to the definition above, the tests can neither be -considered passed nor failed; instead, they are @emph{skipped} -- i.e., +considered passed nor failed; instead, they are @emph{skipped}- --i.e., they are not run, or their result is anyway ignored for what concerns the count of failures and successes. Skips are usually explicitly reported though, so that the user will be aware that not all of the -- 2.47.3