X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/20fe3a947f2305fb271a811d50f8a7d263511ee7..d3df81fcf2e52e4e484da1c1df431c7a915a3139:/docs/README.developers

diff --git a/docs/README.developers b/docs/README.developers
index b2c2efa0..b243b5d3 100644
--- a/docs/README.developers
+++ b/docs/README.developers
@@ -41,12 +41,20 @@ end-users who don't have any interest in changing the configure-related files
 and don't have autoconf installed.  They'll be unable to make without playing
 around with `touch'.
 
-The correct order to commit the configure-related files is:
+The correct procedure to commit the configure-related files is:
 
-% cvs commit acconfig.h aclocal.m4 config.h.in configure.in configure stamp-h.in
+    % cvs commit acconfig.h aclocal.m4 configure.in
+    % autoconf && autoheader
+    % cvs commit config.h.in configure
+    % make stamp-h.in
+    % cvs commit stamp-h.in
 
-If you haven't changed all of those files, just commit the rest in the
-stated order (e.g. cvs commit acconfig.h config.h.in stamp-h.in).
+If you haven't changed all of those files, just commit the rest in the stated
+order (e.g. cvs commit acconfig.h config.h.in stamp-h.in).  The reason for
+the sequence is the RCS Id strings in the edited files -- they change when
+you commit the changes.
+
+You can run just "make" instead of the other commands in between cvs commits.
 
 
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@@ -130,6 +138,21 @@ zotnet/tws/
     "time".  Date and time manipulation routines go here.
 
 
+-------------------------------------------------------
+nmh-local functions to use in preference to OS versions
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+For some system functions whose availability or behavior varies from OS to OS,
+nmh conditionally uses a local definition with the same name as the OS function
+(e.g. snprintf()).  For other functions, developers need to avoid the OS
+versions and always use the nmh-supplied function.  Here is a list of such
+functions: 
+
+OS function  nmh-local version to use instead
+===========  ================================
+getpass()    nmh_getpass()
+
+
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