* top/README-release: Clarify: you should make a point to have
the latest stable versions of build tools in your PATH, and the
reference to buildreq is solely for its list of tool names, not
for its minimal-functional version numbers.
Prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas and Gary V. Vaughan.
2012-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+ doc: clarify README-release
+ * top/README-release: Clarify: you should make a point to have
+ the latest stable versions of build tools in your PATH, and the
+ reference to buildreq is solely for its list of tool names, not
+ for its minimal-functional version numbers.
+ Prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas and Gary V. Vaughan.
+
maint.mk: use more readable (yet functionally equivalent) quoting
It is common to quote a single quote in a single quoted string like
this: '...'\''...'. Unless you know the idiom, that looks like
git checkout master
git pull origin master
-* Ensure that the desired versions of autoconf, automake, etc.
+* Ensure that the latest stable versions of autoconf, automake, etc.
are in your PATH. See the buildreq list in bootstrap.conf for
- the complete list.
+ the complete list of tools.
* Ensure that you're on "master" with no uncommitted diffs.
This should produce no output: git checkout master; git diff