Re: hello 2.3.91 pretest

2008-11-07 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Eric, Neither the Automake manual nor the GNU Coding Standards (standards.texi) mention whether COPYING.DOC is recommended practice. I'd expect any info to be in maintain.texi rather than standards.texi. (Not that there's anything there, either.) I asked rms about it some time ago

Re: hello 2.3.91 pretest

2008-11-07 Thread Eric Blake
Karl Berry freefriends.org> writes: > > I've made a new pretest for hello, > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.3.91.tar.gz. > > The Hello code is unchanged; this is just to get the new version of the > FDL, and updated gnulib and other infrastructure. > > Please test if you have the incli

Re: [PATCH] Implementations of random, srandom, initstate, setstate, rand, srand

2008-11-07 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > My take from this is we need separate modules, rand and random, is > that right? Yes, that's my understanding too. > The existing random_r module is folded into random. Or maybe 'random' needs only to depend on 'random_r'? (I haven't looked into the details.) >