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authorEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2008-10-08 09:33:48 -0600
committerEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2008-10-08 09:43:25 -0600
commit5e7bc716e5670e929b0074ead8e4bd3b745a1ff8 (patch)
tree7ec7c6a2d5af17fccec672ed7d2f99c026710c11 /HACKING
parent734abde3de165b9031bac6345bbca0314c314dcb (diff)
downloadautoconf-5e7bc716e5670e929b0074ead8e4bd3b745a1ff8.tar.gz
Resync from gnulib.
* cfg.mk (cvs_executable_files, cvs_files): Rewrite... (fetch): ...into new target. (executable-update): Delete, now that it is unused. * maint.mk (update, local_updates, cvs_files, gnulib_repo) (wget-update, cvs-update): Likewise. * HACKING (Update the foreign files): Document new procedure. * GNUmakefile: Resync from upstream, via new 'make fetch'. * build-aux/config.guess: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
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@@ -101,10 +101,8 @@ environment, such as your GPG key and the location of a gnulib
checkout.
** Update the foreign files
-Running `make update' in the top level should make it all for you.
-FIXME - this is broken as of 2.62, now that most upstream files are
-stored in git rather than CVS. Until this is fixed, manually copy the
-files listed in cfg.mk from a gnulib git checkout.
+Running `make fetch' in the top level should grab it all for you; you
+should check the results before committing them in git.
** Set the version number
Update the version number in NEWS (with version, date, and release