| Requirements |
| ============ |
| If you use the GIT version of strace there will be some files missing |
| that you need to build strace. These files are generated by tools from |
| the GNU Autoconf and Automake packages. You need recent versions, which |
| provide the `autoreconf -i' command that will do everything you need. |
| |
| |
| No more ChangeLog file |
| ====================== |
| Do not create or modify the ChangeLog files. Starting at 2009-07-09, the |
| policy changed. Before, we would insert the exact same text (or worse, |
| sometimes slightly differing) into both the ChangeLog file and the commit |
| log. Now we put that information only in the commit log, and generate |
| the top-level ChangeLog file from logs at "make dist" time. As such, |
| there are strict requirements on the form of the commit log messages. |
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| |
| Commit log requirements |
| ======================= |
| Each commit log should always start with a one-line summary, the second |
| line should be blank, and the remaining lines are usually ChangeLog-style |
| entries for all affected files, except the leading TABs which should |
| be omitted. |