From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:50:15 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Fixlets for HACKING. X-Git-Tag: v1.11.1b~52^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fd7d4da2cb4d4817776fd6b8637060f5351134e3;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git Fixlets for HACKING. * HACKING (Administrivia): Fixed typo `NES' for `NEWS'. (Naming): Do not refer to a convention dating back to Feb 2001 as "very new". Related rewording. (Working with Git): Now we require autoconf 2.67 for bootstrap, so use that version in the examples. --- diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index ecbd0a8ce..a3e37f066 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -33,16 +33,16 @@ Most of them are updated before release with `make fetch'. * Changes other than bug fixes must be mentioned in NEWS. Important - bug fixes should be mentioned in NES, too. + bug fixes should be mentioned in NEWS, too. ================================================================ = Naming * We've adopted the convention that internal AC_SUBSTs should be - named with a leading `am__', and internally generated targets should - be named with a leading `am--'. This convention is very new - (as of Feb 7 2001) and so it isn't yet universally used. But all - new code should use it. + named with a leading `am__', and internally generated targets + should be named with a leading `am--'. This convention, although + in place from at least February 2001, isn't yet universally used. + But all new code should use it. We used to use `_am_' as the prefix for an internal AC_SUBST. However, it turns out that NEWS-OS 4.2R complains if a Makefile @@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ not installed as "autoconf", pass it explicitly (along with the accompanying "autom4te") when calling `bootstrap' and `configure'. For example: - $ AUTOCONF=autoconf2.65 AUTOM4TE=autom4te2.65 ./bootstrap - $ ./configure AUTOCONF=autoconf2.65 AUTOM4TE=autom4te2.65 + $ AUTOCONF=autoconf2.67 AUTOM4TE=autom4te2.67 ./bootstrap + $ ./configure AUTOCONF=autoconf2.67 AUTOM4TE=autom4te2.67 * Dependent files aclocal.m4, configure and Makefile.in in all directories should be up to date in the git repository, so that