From: Russ Allbery Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:39:19 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Clarify the X-Git-Tag: AUTOCONF-2.53b~5 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c76f6922ddf3d76bacc4e14fc2be2de3445b9de;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Clarify the description of the tarname default. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index d3ae1a5f3..7bc0af476 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2002-07-17 Russ Allbery + + * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Clarify the + description of the tarname default. + 2002-07-17 Andreas Buening * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Don't set diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index 2046bbe38..61d33b666 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -1512,8 +1512,8 @@ the email to which users should send bug reports. The package @var{tarname} differs from @var{package}: the latter designates the full package name (e.g., @samp{GNU Autoconf}), while the former is meant for distribution tar ball names (e.g., @samp{autoconf}). It defaults to -@var{package} once @samp{GNU } strip, lower cased, and all non -alphanumeric and underscore characters mapped onto @samp{-}. +@var{package} once @samp{GNU } strip, lower-cased, and all characters +other than alphanumerics and underscores are changed to @samp{-}. It is preferable that these arguments be static, i.e., there should not be any shell computation, but they can be computed by M4. The following