Re: 2.62 nearly ready

[Eric Blake]

Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:

> I'm pushing a series of commits that adds the tag v2.62 to git.  I would
> have uploaded 2.62 yesterday and sent the release announcement, except
> that there was a permissions snafu that prevented me from doing the
> upload

The permissions problem has been resolved; I've completed uploading the 
tarballs to ftp.gnu.org, and am checking in this as part of updating the online 
manual.  The official release announcement will follow tonight when I again 
have access to an email client where I can gpg sign the mail (gmane is a bit 
lacking, in that respect).

>From 0902437e284efc0a80187db5f888b752504e0324 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:19:05 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Generate web docs for 2.62.

* doc/autoconf.texi (Evaluation Macros): Fix typo.
(Notices): Use recommended means to escape RCS keyword.
* cfg.mk (gnulib_dir): New macro.
(web-manual): New target.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
---
 ChangeLog         |    8 ++++++++
 cfg.mk            |   12 ++++++++++++
 doc/.gitignore    |    3 ++-
 doc/autoconf.texi |    6 +++---
 4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3f6a5c0..8c06f67 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2008-04-08  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
+
+       Generate web docs for 2.62.
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (Evaluation Macros): Fix typo.
+       (Notices): Use recommended means to escape RCS keyword.
+       * cfg.mk (gnulib_dir): New macro.
+       (web-manual): New target.
+
 2008-04-05  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
 
        Release Version 2.62.
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 3869ff4..773c335 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -64,3 +64,15 @@ executable-update: wget-update cvs-update autom4te-update
 # Tests not to run.
 local-checks-to-skip ?= \
   changelog-check sc_unmarked_diagnostics
+
+# The local directory containing the checked-out copy of gnulib used in this
+# release.  For now, used solely for generating the web-manual.
+gnulib_dir = '$(abs_srcdir)'/../gnulib
+
+.PHONY: web-manual
+web-manual:
+       @cd $(srcdir)/doc ; \
+       GENDOCS_TEMPLATE_DIR=$(gnulib_dir)/doc; export GENDOCS_TEMPLATE_DIR; \
+       $(SHELL) $(gnulib_dir)/build-aux/gendocs.sh autoconf \
+           "$(PACKAGE_NAME) - Creating Automatic Configuration Scripts"
+       @echo " *** Upload the doc/manual directory to web-cvs."
diff --git a/doc/.gitignore b/doc/.gitignore
index 0a1e04a..c806b1e 100644
--- a/doc/.gitignore
+++ b/doc/.gitignore
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 *.fns
 *.html
 *.htp
-*.info
+*.info*
 *.ky
 *.log
 *.MS
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 *.vr
 *.vrs
 Makefile
+manual
 stamp-vti
 standards
 version.texi
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index c22b822..49ade0f 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -1872,9 +1872,9 @@ without @acronym{RCS} or @acronym{CVS} changing it when 
you check in
 
 For example, this line in @file{configure.ac}:
 
address@hidden The asis prevents RCS from changing the example in the manual.
address@hidden The @w prevents RCS from changing the example in the manual.
 @example
-AC_REVISION(address@hidden: 1.30 }$])
+AC_REVISION(address@hidden: 1.30 $])
 @end example
 
 @noindent
@@ -10814,7 +10814,7 @@ The following macros give some control over the order 
of the evaluation
 by adding or removing levels of quotes.
 
 @defmac m4_apply (@var{macro}, @var{list})
address@hidden apply
address@hidden
 Apply the elements of the quoted, comma-separated @var{list} as the
 arguments to @var{macro}.  If @var{list} is empty, invoke @var{macro}
 without arguments.  Note the difference between @code{m4_indir}, which
-- 
1.5.4