Re: [PATCH] news: add entry about recent 'ar-lib' changes

[Peter Rosin]

Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-03-02 15:23:
> On 03/02/2012 12:44 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> * NEWS: Add information about recent 'ar-lib' changes.
>> ---
>>  NEWS |    6 ++++++
>>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Here's the NEWS entry for review.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>>
>> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
>> index 476db72..5b2746a 100644
>> --- a/NEWS
>> +++ b/NEWS
>> @@ -109,6 +109,12 @@ New in 1.11.0a:
>>      overwriting the foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed
>>      by automake.
>>  
>> +  - The 'ar-lib' script now ignores the "s" (symbol index) and "S" (no
>> +    symbol index) modifiers as well as the "s" action, as the symbol index
>> +    is created unconditionally by Microsoft lib.  Also, the "q" (quick)
>> +    action is now a synonym for "r" (replace).  The "v" (verbose) modifier
>> +    was started to be ignored already in 1.11.2.
>> +
>>
> Maybe s/was/has/ here?  Or even a reformulation like this:
> 
>   Also, the script has been ignoring the "v" (verbose) modifier already
>   since Automake 1.11.2.

I have now pushed that (but saying that "v" has been ignored since 1.11.3,
since that is the correct version in this case), and I also did various
merges so that msvc, branch-1.11 and master all carry the recent
developments.

I hope I didn't botch the merges too badly. :-)

Thanks for your patience.

Cheers,
Peter