On Monday 13 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On Friday 10 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > Reference:
> > <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8784>
> >
> > On Thursday 02 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > >
> > > Hello automakers.
> > >
> > > Continuing with the good trend of avoiding to impinge on the user
> > > namespace, we should start supporting AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
> > > in addition to DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, so that the former can be
> > > reserved for the developer to be set in the 'Makefile.am's, and the
> > > latter left for the user, packager or tester to use freely.
> > >
> > > Sorry for the curtness of this message, but it is thought more as
> > > a "note to self" than a bug report proper.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Stefano
> > >
> > >
> > Implemented in the first one of the attached patches. The second patch
> > is a follow-up updating the "maintainer-check" rules accordingly.
> >
> > OK for maint? This should be quite uncontroversial, so I'll push in 72
> > hours if there is no review by then.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Stefano
> >
> I've pushed these patches to maint now.
>
> Regards,
> Stefano
>
And just now I note that I've forgotten to add a peoper NEWS entry. Sigh.
Fixed with the attached patch.
Sorry for the noise,
Stefano
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Message-Id: <5aad6b2552953fbf15f7df672538281b513beff9.1307994166.git.stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:40:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] news: update w.r.t. introduction of AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
* NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Update.
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
NEWS | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6d8233e..f18647a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
+
+ news: update w.r.t. introduction of AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
+ * NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Update.
+
2011-06-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
maintcheck: DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS can be defined on make cmdline
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b7f9b54..e292474 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ New in 1.11.0a:
- The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
+ - A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
+ distcheck" time can now, and indeed he's advised to, do so by defining
+ the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
+ instead of the old DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.
+ The DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable should now be reserved for the
+ user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it should
+ still continue to work as before.
+
Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
* Bugs introduced by 1.11:
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