Re: [PATCH] Add new 'AM_PROG_AR' macro, triggering the 'ar-lib' script.

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Wednesday 15 September 2010, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Den 2010-09-15 12:47 skrev Stefano Lattarini: 
> > Honestly, I've never had to do such a "fake merge" myself in
> > practice; but I can point you to the excellent explanation Ralf
> > gave to me about the issue:
> >  <http://osdir.com/ml/automake-patches-gnu/2010-08/msg00066.html>
> 
> Oh, I can see *why* you would want to do a "fake merge",
Oh, sorry.
> I was more interested in how to handle the ChangeLog and what to
> put in the commit message.
Honestly, I have no idea what the best policy would be.  We could
try to work one out when and if the necessity arise.
 
> Looks like commit caf351c445a99e0a8e8bef2f8bc05624597bba13 is the
> one Ralf referred to in that message, but that one does not bring
> any light on the above questions.
Especially considering that generated-yet-committed configure and
Makefile.ins are not mentioned in the ChangeLog or in the git commit 
messages ;-)
 
> (the answer for the other message will take a while, the testsuite
> takes forever to complete on Windows)
Maybe you could hold off doing a complete testsuite run until the 
amending iterations are over (they should be over for what concerns 
me, but remember that Ralf has not chimed in yet).

Regards,
  Stefano