bug#11793: [PATCH] docs: document AM_MISSING_PROG

[Eric Blake]

On 06/27/2012 03:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Addresses automake bug#11793.
> 
> This macro has been present for a long time, and coreutils has been
> relying on it despite no documentation, which argues that it is stable
> enough to be worth documenting.
> 
> Furthermore, since we are hoping to change our preferred invocation
> from 'missing --run program' to 'missing program' in a future version
> of automake, we need a way for packages to consistently get the
> preferred invocation form rather than open-coding a call to 'missing'.
> In particular, the Autoconf manual would love to recommend this macro
> when discussing how to integrate an autotest suite with automake.
> 
> * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros): Document AM_MISSING_PROG.
> ---

Forgot to mention - this is intended for maint, to be followed by a
merge into master and NG.

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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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