On 04/21/2013 10:10 PM, Jack Kelly wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> [Re-adding the list]
>
And doing that again. Jack, is there reason why you keep dropping the
list? Perhaps something is wrong with your mailer?
>> On 04/21/2013 12:37 PM, Jack Kelly wrote:
>>> Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> writes:
>> I like this wording. I have prepared a patch using it, with minor
>> adjustments.
>> The patch is below. Opinions?
>
> Much better. In the first point, perhaps
> s/aclocal no longer error out/aclocal will no longer error out/?
>
Good idea. Below is the last version. I will push in a few hours barring
any objection.
Thanks,
Stefano
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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:59:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: improve wording for automake bug#13514 fix
Helped-by: Jack Kelly <j...@jackkelly.name>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
---
NEWS | 24 ++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 06c012f..6597626 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -127,23 +127,23 @@ New in 1.13.2:
Automake 1.13, has turned out to be a similarly very bad idea,
for exactly the same reason.
- - Aclocal no longer error out if the first local m4 directory (as
- specified by the '-I' option or the 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS' or
- 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR' macros) doesn't exist; it merely report a
- warning in the 'unsupported' category. This is done to support
- some pre-existing real-world usages; refer to automake bug#13514
- for more details.
+ - aclocal will no longer error out if the first local m4 directory
+ (as specified by the '-I' option or the 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS' or
+ 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR' macros) doesn't exist; it will merely report
+ a warning in the 'unsupported' category. This is done to support
+ some pre-existing real-world usages. See automake bug#13514.
- - Aclocal no longer consider directories for extra m4 files more than
- once, even if they are specified multiple times. This prevents
- problems in older packages that specify both
+ - aclocal will no longer consider directories for extra m4 files more
+ than once, even if they are specified multiple times. This ensures
+ packages that specify both
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) in configure.ac
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 in Makefile.am
- If the 'm4' directory did not exist when aclocal was called the first
- time by autoreconf, an error would have ensued with Automake 1.13 and
- 1.13.1. See automake bug#13514.
+ will work correctly, even when the 'm4' directory contains no
+ package-specific files, but is used only to install third-party
+ m4 files (as can happen with e.g., "libtoolize --install").
+ See automake bug#13514.
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