RE: m4 patch requests

[Mike Fulton]

Hi

 

Thank you Sam! Will do.

 

Thanks, Mike 

 

 

On 2022-12-23, 20:43, "Sam James" <sam@cmpct.info> wrote:

 

 

> 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