From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:30:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (my-distcheck): Add a comment.
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_1~8
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=41971a1eaa6f0424f54943d6d90beb030558c9f7;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(my-distcheck): Add a comment.
---

diff --git a/Makefile.maint b/Makefile.maint
index 263a2c7c05..0a2a35a152 100644
--- a/Makefile.maint
+++ b/Makefile.maint
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ null_AM_MAKEFLAGS = \
   AUTOHEADER=false \
   MAKEINFO=false
 
+# Detect format-string/arg-list mismatches that would normally be obscured
+# by the use of _().  The --disable-nls effectively defines away that macro,
+# and building with CFLAGS='-Wformat -Werror' causes any format warning to be
+# treated as a failure.
 t=./=test
 my-distcheck: writable-files po-check
 	-rm -rf $(t)