doc: minor fixes to "Understanding" section

[bison.git] / README-hacking

diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
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@@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ of the .output file etc.  This excludes impossible error messages
 (comparable to assert/abort), and all the --trace output which is
 meant for the maintainers only.
 
+** Horizontal tabs
+Do not add horizontal tab characters to any file in Bison's repository
+except where required.  For example, do not use tabs to format C code.
+However, make files, ChangeLog, and some regular expressions require
+tabs.  Also, test cases might need to contain tabs to check that Bison
+properly processes tabs in its input.
+
 
 * Working from the repository
 
@@ -158,6 +165,20 @@ Register your changes.
 
         $ git checkin ...
 
+For a suggestion of what gnulib commit might be stable enough for a
+formal release, see the ChangeLog in the latest gnulib snapshot at:
+
+        http://erislabs.net/ianb/projects/gnulib/
+
+The autoconf files we use are currently:
+
+        m4/m4.m4
+        lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4
+        lib/m4sugar/foreach.m4
+
+These files don't change very often in autoconf, so it should be
+relatively straight-forward to examine the differences in order to
+decide whether to update.
 
 * Test suite
 
@@ -203,6 +224,10 @@ release:
 
 * Release Procedure
 
+** Update the submodules.  See above.
+
+** Update maintainer tools, such as Autoconf.  See above.
+
 ** Try to get the *.pot files to the Translation Project at least one
 week before a stable release, to give them time to translate them.
 Before generating the *.pot files, make sure that po/POTFILES.in and
@@ -295,7 +320,7 @@ Here's a brief reminder of how to roll the tarballs and upload them:
 *** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz # This can take a while.
 *** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz.sig
 *** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz.directive.asc
-*** Repeat all these steps for bison-2.3b.tar.bz2.
+*** Repeat all these steps for bison-2.3b.tar.xz.
 
 ** Update Bison manual on www.gnu.org.
 
@@ -370,7 +395,7 @@ Push these changes.
 
 -----
 
-Copyright (C) 2002-2005, 2007-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2002-2005, 2007-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU Bison.