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Guile Hacking Guide
-Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008 Free software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2012 Free software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
libtool --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
on various systems to produce shared libraries. Available in
- "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool". Version 1.5.26 (or
- later) is needed for correct AIX support.
+ "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool". Version 2.2 (or
+ later) is recommended (for correct AIX support, and correct
+ interaction with the Gnulib module for using libunistring).
gettext --- a system for rigging a program so that it can output its
messages in the local tongue. Guile presently only exports
- autoreconf from autoconf prior to 2.59 will run gettextize, which
will mess up the Guile tree.
+- libtool 1.5.26 does not know that it should remove the -R options
+ that the Gnulib libunistring and havelib modules generate (because
+ gcc doesn't actually support -R).
+
- (add here.)
manage without the deprecated definition.
4. Add an entry that the definition has been deprecated in NEWS and
- explain what do do instead.
+ explain what to do instead.
5. In file TODO, there is a list of releases with reminders about what
to do at each release. Add a reminder about the removal of the
- Write commit messages for functions written in C using the
functions' C names, and write entries for functions written in Scheme
-using the functions' Scheme names. For example,
+using the functions' Scheme names. For example,
* foo.c: Moved scm_procedure_documentation from eval.c.
- When you get bug reports or patches from people, be sure to list
them in THANKS.
+- Do not introduce trailing whitespace (and feel free to clean it up
+opportunistically, that is, if doing so is part of some other change).
+The goal is to reduce (and over time, eliminate) spurious diffs.
+
+For Emacs users:
+ (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)
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