Hello,
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:12:32AM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
> The English seems fine to me, but since Gnulib has a Texinfo manual, it
> seems like it might make sense to use a multi-argument xref instead of
> @uref (with rewording), as in:
> @xref{Top,,,gnulib,Gnulib},
OTOH, is seems more useful to point developers to the web page than to
the info manual, which is not installed on most distributions.
Thus I think there should be both references.
What about the following variation of Keith's patch?
Stepan
Index: doc/autoconf.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.919
diff -u -r1.919 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi 28 Jun 2005 13:08:29 -0000 1.919
+++ doc/autoconf.texi 29 Jun 2005 05:18:55 -0000
@@ -4564,6 +4564,14 @@
environment. Some functions may be missing or unfixable, and your
package must be ready to replace them.
+Suitable replacements for many such problem functions are available
+from @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/, Gnulib}, which aims
+to provide a centralized repository of such portability functions.
+@xref{Top,,,gnulib,Gnulib}.
+The source files themselves are available online,
+under various licences, mostly GNU GPL or GNU LGPL, at
+@uref{http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/lib/}.
+
@defmac AC_LIBOBJ (@var{function})
@acindex{LIBOBJ}
@ovindex LIBOBJS
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