@setfilename standards.info
@settitle GNU Coding Standards
@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:
-@set lastupdate May 5, 2011
+@set lastupdate August 1, 2011
@c %**end of header
@dircategory GNU organization
that can't handle those characters.
Whenever possible, try to make programs work properly with
sequences of bytes that represent multibyte characters, using encodings
-such as UTF-8 and others. You can use libiconv to deal with a wide
-range of encodings.
+such as UTF-8 and others.
@cindex error messages
Check every system call for an error return, unless you know you wish
@file{COPYING}. If the GNU LGPL is used, it should be in a file called
@file{COPYING.LESSER}.
-Naturally, all the source files must be in the distribution. It is okay
-to include non-source files in the distribution, provided they are
-up-to-date and machine-independent, so that building the distribution
-normally will never modify them. We commonly include non-source files
-produced by Bison, @code{lex}, @TeX{}, and @code{makeinfo}; this helps avoid
+Naturally, all the source files must be in the distribution. It is
+okay to include non-source files in the distribution along with the
+source files they are generated from, provided they are up-to-date
+with the source they are made from, and machine-independent, so that
+normal building of the distribution will never modify them. We
+commonly include non-source files produced by Autoconf, Automake,
+Bison, @code{lex}, @TeX{}, and @code{makeinfo}; this helps avoid
unnecessary dependencies between our distributions, so that users can
install whichever packages they want to install.
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