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author | Tim Rühsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de> | 2019-01-28 15:25:30 +0100 |
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committer | Tim Rühsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de> | 2019-01-28 20:32:34 +0100 |
commit | f0e4f8df29102342ca2a9377917adbb7f95742c6 (patch) | |
tree | 2bff046036c86cfbc1680a3f885ab10e90a83ed8 /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
parent | 5f7b10e632971cadf277208d3fde711c35868ccb (diff) | |
download | gnutls-f0e4f8df29102342ca2a9377917adbb7f95742c6.tar.gz |
Fix 'make glimport' and update CONTRIBUTING.mdtmp-update-glimport-and-docs
Signed-off-by: Tim Rühsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 482dded5d7..201efd133b 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -278,18 +278,16 @@ are always active. # Gnulib -The files at `gl/`, `src/gl/` and `lib/unistring` directories are part of -gnulib project and are included mainly for systems which may miss functionality -available in glibc and unistring libraries. These files are updated when new -functionality is needed or bug fixes affecting gnutls are required. +The directories `gl/`, `src/gl/` and `lib/unistring` contain gnulib files +copied/created by `./bootstrap`. Gnulib is a portability source code library +to handle API or behavior incompatibilities between target systems. -They can be updated by the following make rule. +To take advantage of the latest gnulib files, we have to update the +`gnulib/` submodule from time to time: ``` $ make glimport ``` -That rule assumes that an updated gnulib is present at `../gnulib/`. - Note that the gnulib library in `gl/` is used by the GnuTLS library and is kept separate from the gnulib used by the GnuTLS tools because of license issues, and also to prevent any gnulib networking modules |