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[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / CONTRIBUTE

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@@ -144,3 +144,30 @@ o  Please read your patch before submitting it.
        arbitrary reformats will be returned with a request
        to re-formatting / split it.
 
+
+o      If ``gdb/configure.in'' is modified then you don't
+       need to include patches to the regenerated file
+       ``configure''.
+
+       The maintainer will re-generate those files
+       using autoconf (2.13 as of 2000-02-29).
+
+
+o      If ``gdb/gdbarch.sh'' is modified, you don't
+       need to include patches to the generated files
+       ``gdbarch.h'' and ``gdbarch.c''.
+
+       See ``gdb/configure.in'' above.
+
+
+o      When submitting a patch that fixes a bug
+       in GDB's bug database a brief reference
+       to the bug can be included in the ChangeLog
+       vis
+
+       * CONTRIBUTE: Mention PR convention.
+       Fix PR gdb/4705.
+
+       The text ``PR gdb/4705'' should also be included
+       in the CVS commit message.  That causes the
+       patch to automatically be archived with the PR.