Clarify overriding of `*_DEPENDENCIES' in LIBOBJS node.

* doc/automake.texi (LIBOBJS): Clarify overriding of
`*_DEPENDENCIES'.
* THANKS: Update.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 173afd2ba64d8701cf218594fc5d87e7e0195ff0..d7a729fbef391fae05c1c28121f5be365e985b9e 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-12-29  Chris Pickett  <chris.pickett@mail.mcgill.ca>  (tiny change)
+
+       * doc/automake.texi (LIBOBJS): Clarify overriding of
+       `*_DEPENDENCIES'.
+       * THANKS: Update.
+
 2008-12-21  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
        Revamp semantics for `missing help2man' and manpage distribution.

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index cb147d9a27ffeef454fdf4ca289ae523664e6886..b415eab1b208852990a55615e06a07fb18efcdbe 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Bruce Korb            bkorb@gnu.org
 Bruno Haible           haible@ilog.fr
 Carsten Lohrke         carlo@gentoo.org
 Charles Wilson         cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
+Chris Pickett          chris.pickett@mail.mcgill.ca
 Chris Provenzano       proven@io.proven.org
 Christian Cornelssen   ccorn@cs.tu-berlin.de
 Claudio Fontana                sick_soul@yahoo.it

diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index 3a1d1acd8c7c74704391940945f35054f93a336b..ce4cbcc47fabecc0143c03f7492bfa908128a975 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -5732,7 +5732,9 @@ However there is no need to list the corresponding sources in
 automatically adds @samp{$(LIBOBJS)} and @samp{$(ALLOCA)} to the
 dependencies, and it will discover the list of corresponding source
 files automatically (by tracing the invocations of the
-@code{AC_LIBSOURCE} Autoconf macros).
+@code{AC_LIBSOURCE} Autoconf macros).  However, if you have already
+defined @samp{*_DEPENDENCIES} explicitly for an unrelated reason, then
+you have to add these variables manually.
 
 These variables are usually used to build a portability library that
 is linked with all the programs of the project.  We now review a