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GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool
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GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool

by Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey, Ian Lance Taylor
October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
9h 9m
English
Sams
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4.5. Documentation and ChangeLogs

As with any software project, it is important to maintain documentation as the project evolves. The documentation must reflect the current state of the software, but it must also accurately record the changes that have been made in the past. The GNU coding standard rigorously enforces the maintenance of documentation. Automake, in fact, implements some of the standard by checking for the presence of a 'ChangeLog' file when automake is run!

A number of files exist, with standardized filenames, for storing documentation in GNU packages. The complete GNU coding standard, which offers some useful insights, can be found at http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards.html.

Other projects, including in-house projects, can use ...

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