# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1296077791 18000
# Node ID 071a4aa151241f37187849bc8d09135381bf4af3
# Parent  cbe089b92e03d4b61ab4656fd853946b267249f8
configure.ac: update comment about UGLY_DEFS

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-01-26  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* configure.ac (INSTALL_SCRIPT): Update commend about UGLY_DEFS.
+
 2011-01-26  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
 
 	* acinclude.m4 (OPENGL_LIBS): Don't add -L/usr/X11R6/LIB to
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1814,8 +1814,10 @@
 OCTAVE_PROG_TEXI2PDF
 
 ### Even though we include config.h, we need to have the preprocessor
-### defines available in a variable for the octave-bug script.  Use
-### UGLY_DEFS for that.
+### defines available in a variable for the testif feature of the
+### scripts/testfun/test.m function.  Use UGLY_DEFS to hold all the -D
+### options.  These are ultimately placed in the DEFS field of the
+### struct returned by octave_config_info, which is used by test.m.
 
 AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS