From 845346b3bb526d0f18878f15d906f05205b5c618 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Joel E. Denny" Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:42:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] build: avoid YACC typo inherited from Autoconf. The typo shows up in the `configure --help' output. Reported by W.C.A. Wijngaards and Paul Eggert at . * README-hacking (Release Procedure): Remind about updating maintainer tools before a release. * THANKS (W.C.A. Wijngaards): Add. * configure.ac (AC_PREREQ): Set to 2.68, which fixes the YACC typo. --- ChangeLog | 12 ++++++++++++ README-hacking | 2 ++ THANKS | 1 + configure.ac | 6 ++++-- 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index dd0081dc..0034da13 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,15 @@ +2011-07-10 Joel E. Denny + + build: avoid YACC typo inherited from Autoconf. + The typo shows up in the `configure --help' output. Reported by + W.C.A. Wijngaards and Paul Eggert at + . + * README-hacking (Release Procedure): Remind about updating + maintainer tools before a release. + * THANKS (W.C.A. Wijngaards): Add. + * configure.ac (AC_PREREQ): Set to 2.68, which fixes the YACC + typo. + 2011-07-10 Joel E. Denny build: create xz instead of bzip2 tarballs. diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking index e56e0414..d468dac6 100644 --- a/README-hacking +++ b/README-hacking @@ -216,6 +216,8 @@ 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 diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 8ce57285..7fee37e3 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ Tommy Nordgren tommy.nordgren@chello.se Troy A. Johnson troyj@ecn.purdue.edu Tys Lefering twlevo@gmail.com Vin Shelton acs@alumni.princeton.edu +W.C.A. Wijngaards wouter@NLnetLabs.nl Wayne Green wayne@infosavvy.com Wolfram Wagner ww@mpi-sb.mpg.de Wwp subscript@free.fr diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index ec204e70..2152c84b 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ # In order for some versions of Sun Studio to compile our C++ test cases # correctly, we need Autoconf 2.64 or better to handle the restrict -# keyword in at least string.h from gnulib. -AC_PREREQ(2.64) +# keyword in at least string.h from gnulib. We need Autoconf 2.68 or +# better to avoid a typo in the `configure --help' entry for the YACC +# environment variable. +AC_PREREQ(2.68) AC_INIT([GNU Bison], m4_esyscmd([build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version]), -- 2.47.2