Re: m4 patch requests

[Sam James]

> On 24 Dec 2022, at 03:56, Mike Fulton <fultonm@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,

Hi Mike,

>  I am new to the m4 community and would like to understand the best way to 
> propose a patch.
> I have a few small changes I would like to request – one minor one where 
> there is a macro collision on z/OS where __stat is already defined, and two 
> others where I would like to add some z/OS specific code for conversion to 
> ASCII from EBCDIC.
> I have a third where the error message from our runtime is ‘<message number> 
> No such file or directory’ instead of just ‘No such file or directory’.
>  What is the preferred way to propose these changes for the community?

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/m4.git/tree/HACKING?h=branch-1.4 almost 
covers it but not quite.

I would follow the guidance in that file wrt style and such, and then send 
patches to the m4-patches
mailing list (m4-patches@gnu.org <mailto:m4-patches@gnu.org>) using 
git-send-email.

Best,
sam

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