doc update

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 163cd4d..9fa1f58 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Henrik Frystyk Nielsen        frystyk@w3.org
 Ian Lance Taylor       ian@cygnus.com
 Janos Farkas           chexum@shadow.banki.hu
 Jason Molenda          crash@cygnus.co.jp
+Jeff Bailey            Jbailey@phn.ca
 Jerome Santini         santini@chambord.univ-orleans.fr
 Jim Meyering           meyering@na-net.ornl.gov
 Joel N. Weber II       nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us

diff --git a/automake.texi b/automake.texi
index d449e37..47a5cc3 100644 (file)
--- a/automake.texi
+++ b/automake.texi
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 @ifinfo
 This file documents GNU automake @value{VERSION}
 
-Copyright (C) 1995, 96, 97 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1995, 96, 97, 98 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
 this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
@@ -1230,6 +1230,26 @@ EXTRA_DIST = BUGS ChangeLog.O README-alpha
 SUBDIRS = doc intl po src tests
 @end example
 
+It is possible to override the @code{SUBDIRS} variable if, like in the
+case of GNU @code{Inetutils}, you want to only build a subset of the
+entire package.  In your @file{Makefile.am} include:
+
+@example
+SUBDIRS = @@SUBDIRS@@
+@end example
+
+Then in your @file{configure.in} you can specify:
+
+@example
+SUBDIRS = "src doc lib po"
+AC_SUBST(SUBDIRS)
+@end example
+
+The upshot of this is that automake is tricked into building the package
+to take the subdirs, but doesn't actually bind that list until
+@code{configure} is run.
+
+
 @code{SUBDIRS} can contain configure substitutions (eg @samp{@@DIRS@@});
 Automake itself does not actually examine the contents of this variable.
 

diff --git a/stamp-vti b/stamp-vti
index 68a8776..dd19bf1 100644 (file)
--- a/stamp-vti
+++ b/stamp-vti
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-@set UPDATED 25 October 1997
+@set UPDATED 12 February 1998
 @set EDITION 1.2d
 @set VERSION 1.2d

diff --git a/version.texi b/version.texi
index 68a8776..dd19bf1 100644 (file)
--- a/version.texi
+++ b/version.texi
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-@set UPDATED 25 October 1997
+@set UPDATED 12 February 1998
 @set EDITION 1.2d
 @set VERSION 1.2d