From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 05:44:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: updated HACKING
X-Git-Tag: Release-1-4d~21
X-Git-Url: https://sourceware.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=27cde9b67f47846fafb4e9e44a06e98068da26a3;p=automake.git

updated HACKING
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diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 2bd825ae..d4f14a4b 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -33,6 +33,15 @@
 * Changes other than bug fixes must be mentioned in NEWS
 
 
+================================================================
+= Naming
+
+* We've adopted the convention that internal AC_SUBSTs should be
+  named with a leading `_am_', and internally generated targets should
+  be named with a leading `_am-'.  This convention is very new
+  (as of Feb 7 2001) and so it isn't yet universally used.  But all
+  new code should use it.
+
 ================================================================
 = Editing `.am' files
 
@@ -50,7 +59,7 @@
 
 * For install and uninstall rules, if a loop is required, it should be
   silent.  Then the body of the loop itself should print each
-  "important" comman it runs.  The printed commands should be preceded
+  "important" command it runs.  The printed commands should be preceded
   by a single space.