[FYI] {maint} news: update w.r.t. introduction of AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS (was: Re: [PATCH] {maint} distcheck: add support for AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS)

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Monday 13 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On Friday 10 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > Reference:
> >  <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8784>
> > 
> > On Thursday 02 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > 
> > > Hello automakers.
> > > 
> > > Continuing with the good trend of avoiding to impinge on the user
> > > namespace, we should start supporting AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
> > > in addition to DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, so that the former can be
> > > reserved for the developer to be set in the 'Makefile.am's, and the
> > > latter left for the user, packager or tester to use freely.
> > > 
> > > Sorry for the curtness of this message, but it is thought more as
> > > a "note to self" than a bug report proper.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > >   Stefano
> > > 
> > > 
> > Implemented in the first one of the attached patches.  The second patch
> > is a follow-up updating the "maintainer-check" rules accordingly.
> > 
> > OK for maint?  This should be quite uncontroversial, so I'll push in 72
> > hours if there is no review by then.
> > 
> > Regards,
> >   Stefano
> > 
> I've pushed these patches to maint now.
> 
> Regards,
>   Stefano
> 
And just now I note that I've forgotten to add a peoper NEWS entry.  Sigh.

Fixed with the attached patch.

Sorry for the noise,
  Stefano

From 5aad6b2552953fbf15f7df672538281b513beff9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-Id: <address@hidden>
From: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:40:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] news: update w.r.t. introduction of 
AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS

* NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Update.
---
 ChangeLog |    5 +++++
 NEWS      |    8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6d8233e..f18647a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-06-13  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
+
+       news: update w.r.t. introduction of AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
+       * NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Update.
+
 2011-06-10  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
 
        maintcheck: DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS can be defined on make cmdline
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b7f9b54..e292474 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ New in 1.11.0a:
   - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
     is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
 
+  - A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
+    distcheck" time can now, and indeed he's advised to, do so by defining
+    the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
+    instead of the old DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.
+    The DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable should now be reserved for the
+    user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it should
+    still continue to work as before.
+
 Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
 
 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
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