Re: [PATCH] README-release improvements

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Gary,

> Set a neutral locale for rolling the release tarballs.

I disagree with this advice. Yes, the first time you run a "make distcheck"
in a German locale, 'makeinfo' may put German strings into your formatted
documentation. But "make distcheck" ought to work for any user as well
as for yourself. And many users will run "make check" in German, Japanese,
or Chinese locales. Therefore you should better fix the Makefile problems
that you have in this area, not push them under the rug.

> Use ./build-aux/ when calling a script, since some shells won't
> run a script relative to the current directory unless "." is in
> the command search PATH.

The "./" is needed in front of file names that don't contain a slash.
For file names that do contain a slash, no search in $PATH is performed;
it is always relative to the current directory. See POSIX:2008
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html>
section 2.9.1, subsection "Command Search and Execution".

If you know about "some shells" that do that wrong, please first have the
Autoconf manual, chapter "Portable Shell Programming", updated.

Bruno
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