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| author | Joel E. Denny <jdenny@ces.clemson.edu> | 2008-05-23 04:36:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Joel E. Denny <jdenny@ces.clemson.edu> | 2008-05-23 04:36:56 +0000 |
| commit | 9126263e13ad3dbc5e5863799c31761757813bcf (patch) | |
| tree | 24ad79d41fa0acfb4adfa0358d8477613934f48d /HACKING | |
| parent | fa6aa7b3dde4c57dfceb389d6b36c1c49265ad98 (diff) | |
| download | bison-9126263e13ad3dbc5e5863799c31761757813bcf.tar.gz | |
* HACKING: Don't say don't mention HACKING in the ChangeLog. We've
been doing it for years.
(Test suite): Mention maintainer-push-check and maintainer-xml-check.
(Release Procedure): Add FIXME about make alpha being unmaintained.
Diffstat (limited to 'HACKING')
| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ -*- outline -*- This file attempts to describe the rules to use when hacking Bison. -Don't put this file into the distribution. Don't mention it in the -ChangeLog. +Don't put this file into the distribution. Everything related to the development of Bison is on Savannah: @@ -57,6 +56,18 @@ release: - runs the parsers under Valgrind. - runs the test suite with G++ as C compiler... +- run `make maintainer-push-check', which runs `make maintainer-check' + while activating the push implementation and its pull interface wrappers + in many test cases that were originally written to exercise only the + pull implementation. This makes certain the push implementation can + perform every task the pull implementation can. + +- run `make maintainer-xml-check', which runs `make maintainer-check' + while checking Bison's XML automaton report for every working grammar + passed to Bison in the test suite. The check just diffs the output of + Bison's included XSLT style sheets with the output of --report=all and + --graph. + - Change tests/atlocal/CFLAGS to add your preferred options. For instance, `-traditional' to check that the parsers are K&R. Note that it does not make sense for glr.c, which should be ANSI, @@ -92,6 +103,8 @@ the tarballs, the xdeltas, and prepares (in /tmp/) a proto announcement. It is so neat, that that's what I use anyway for genuine releases, but adjusting things by hand (e.g., the urls in the announcement file, the ChangeLog which is not needed etc.). +FIXME: `make alpha' is not maintained and is broken. These +instructions need to be replaced or removed. If it fails, you're on your own... |