maint: help Automake reading Yacc flags.

[bison.git] / 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
 
@@ -219,6 +226,8 @@ release:
 
 ** 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
@@ -311,7 +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.
 
@@ -386,7 +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.