On 13 November 2013 19:20, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote: > > On 11 November 2013 14:30, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > >> > >> Glad you found it. > >> If you can find a good way to document it, I'd appreciate a patch. > > > > > > I can think of nothing better than a note in the source, by whoever wrote > > it, so it reflects their intention rather than my half-baked guesses. > > I'm the guilty party. > I did look at maint.mk around that rule, but didn't find a good, > fulfilling way to document that the whole thing feels like a house of > cards, and that it is nontrivial (as you've found) to diagnose > failures.
Failing that… > I guess anything at all would be welcome. > …how about just mentioning that for it to work, definitions/declarations should be in GNU format, identifier at the start of a line? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
