Don't put this file into the distribution. Don't mention it in the
ChangeLog.
+Everything related to the development of Bison is on Savannah:
+
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/bison/
+
+
* Administrivia
** If you incorporate a change from somebody on the net:
which demonstrates the bug. Then fix the bug, re-run the test suite,
and check everything in.
+
* Hacking
** Visible changes
that 1. Bison compiles cleanly, 2. the parsers it produces compile
cleanly too.
-- Change tests/bison to run `valgrind -q bison' to run Bison under
- Valgrind.
-
-- Run the test suite with `./testsuite PREPARSER='valgrind -q' to make
- sure the parser behave properly.
+- run `make maintainer-check' which:
+ - runs `valgrind -q bison' to run Bison under Valgrind.
+ - runs the parsers under Valgrind.
+ - runs the test suite with G++ as C compiler...
- Change tests/atlocal/CFLAGS to add your preferred options. For
instance, `-traditional' to check that the parsers are K&R. Note
but currently is actually GNU C, nor for lalr1.cc, which anyway is
not exercised yet in the test suite.
-- Change tests/atlocal/CC to use a C++ compiler.
-
* Release Procedure
See above.
** Update the foreign files
-Running `make update' in the top level should make it all for you.
-This covers PO files too. Beware that it happens that some PO files
-contain serious problems and are rejected by recent Gettext releases:
-fix them all, and complain to the Translation Project!
-
-Note that there might be *new* PO files. Don't forget to update the
-whole machinery, which not only includes LINGUAS, but `cvs add'ing the
-PO files too.
+Running `./bootstrap' in the top level should update them all for you.
+This covers PO files too. Sometimes a PO file contains problems that
+causes it to be rejected by recent Gettext releases; please report
+these to the Translation Project.
** Update NEWS
The version number, *and* the date of the release (including for
** Announce
Complete/fix the announcement file, and send it at least to
-info@gnu.org (if a real release, or a ``serious beta''),
+info-gnu@gnu.org (if a real release, or a ``serious beta''),
bison@gnu.org, and translation@iro.umontreal.ca.
+Send the same announcement on the comp.compilers newsgroup. Do not
+make any Cc as the moderator will throw away anything cross-posted or
+Cc'ed. It really needs to be a separate message.
+
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-Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU Bison.