Re: new port contributing (ATMEL AVR)

[Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 11:59:11PM +0100, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> - make one patch for the config subdirectory. I guess this patch, on its
>   own, won't produce any conflicts with existing files, and will consist
>   of all-new files. Maybe a tar file would be even more appropriate,
>   together with the ChangeLog entry.
> 
> - make a patch adding all the configuration infrastructure. I don't
>   know how large that patch would be, but ideally, it would be only
>   configure.in changes, plus the rebuild configure, plus the ChangeLog
>   entry.

Make sure to send changes to config.guess or config.sub to
autoconf@gnu.org as well.

> - make a patch collection any additional changes that you made to the
>   compiler. Ideally, you would not need such a patch. If you do need it,
>   you'll probably have to explain in detail why you need it.

Rather, unrelated changes should be in different patches.
But hopefully you won't need any.


r~