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[Gavin D. Smith]

branch: master
commit 95931cb77f4afc42a97bd2cbb99f40b259b8807b
Author: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Jun 4 17:35:28 2024 +0100

    * README-hacking: advice on upgrading ppport.h
---
 ChangeLog      | 4 ++++
 README-hacking | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f56d625ae2..4c18599c8f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-06-04  Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
+
+       * README-hacking: advice on upgrading ppport.h
+
 2024-06-04  Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
 
        * tp/Texinfo/XS: run gnulib-tool --add-import
diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index 0eb419f65a..3e8f7b76fe 100644
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -312,8 +312,11 @@ Update gnulib:
 
 Use util/srclist-txi for checking files to be copied from gnulib
 
-Update ppport.h in tp/Texinfo/XS:
+Update ppport.h in tp/Texinfo/XS.  Update Devel::PPPort via cpan to newest
+available version, then run:
   perl -MDevel::PPPort -e'Devel::PPPort::WriteFile'
+Check that this results in a newer version.
+
 Check what changes ppport.h reports:
   perl ppport.h --compat-version=5.8.1 *.xs misc.c xspara.c miscxs.h xspara.h 
*/*.xs main/get_perl_info.* main/build_perl_info.* main/api_to_perl.* 
convert/call_html_perl_function.* convert/build_html_perl_state.* 
convert/get_html_perl_info.*