Update maintainer documentation for 'relocatable-prog' module.

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+2010-05-23  Ben Pfaff  <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
+
+       Update maintainer documentation for 'relocatable-prog' module.
+       * doc/relocatable-maint.texi: Update.
+       Comments by Bruno Haible.
+
 2010-05-23  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        git-merge-changelog: Enable --split-merged-entry by default.

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@@ -88,6 +88,27 @@ bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, relocate (LOCALEDIR));
 
 The prototype for this function is in @file{relocatable.h}.
 
+@item
+The @code{set_program_name} function can also configure some
+additional libraries to relocate files that they access, by defining
+corresponding C preprocessor symbols to 1.  The libraries for which
+this is supported and the corresponding preprocessor symbols are:
+
+@table @asis
+@item libcharset
+@code{DEPENDS_ON_LIBCHARSET}
+
+@item libiconv
+@code{DEPENDS_ON_LIBICONV}
+
+@item libintl
+@code{DEPENDS_ON_LIBINTL}
+@end table
+
+Defining the symbol for a library makes every program in the package
+depend on that library, whether the program really uses the library or
+not, so this feature should be used with some caution.
+
 @item
 If your package installs shell scripts, also import the
 @code{relocatable-script} module.  Then, near the beginning of each