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FYI: automake.texi typos (branch-1-7)


From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Subject: FYI: automake.texi typos (branch-1-7)
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 13:46:15 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

I'm installing this on branch-1-7.  (I already fixed these
on HEAD on 2003-05-05.)

2003-05-17  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <address@hidden>

        * automake.texi: Fix some typos.

Index: automake.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/automake.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.305.2.24
diff -u -r1.305.2.24 automake.texi
--- automake.texi       11 May 2003 19:57:35 -0000      1.305.2.24
+++ automake.texi       17 May 2003 11:43:50 -0000
@@ -1636,7 +1636,7 @@
 should be able to use @samp{C-c} to kill the test.  In order to avoid
 problems, you can set @code{EMACS} to ``no'' in the environment, or
 use the @samp{--with-lispdir} option to @command{configure} to
-explictly set the correct path (if you're sure you have an @code{emacs}
+explicitly set the correct path (if you're sure you have an @code{emacs}
 that supports Emacs Lisp.
 @cvindex AM_PATH_LISPDIR
 
@@ -1730,7 +1730,7 @@
 @itemx AM_SET_DEPDIR
 @itemx AM_DEP_TRACK
 @itemx AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS
-These macros are used to implement automake's automatic dependency
+These macros are used to implement Automake's automatic dependency
 tracking scheme.  They are called automatically by automake when
 required, and there should be no need to invoke them manually.
 
@@ -3289,7 +3289,7 @@
 other directory in the current package.  This is done by prepending the
 relative path to the appropriate directory to the @code{ansi2knr}
 option.  For instance, suppose the package has ANSI C code in the
address@hidden and @file{lib} subdirs.  The files @file{ansi2knr.c} and
address@hidden and @file{lib} subdirectories.  The files @file{ansi2knr.c} and
 @file{ansi2knr.1} appear in @file{lib}.  Then this could appear in
 @file{src/Makefile.am}:
 
@@ -3350,7 +3350,7 @@
 Automatic dependency tracking can be suppressed by putting
 @code{no-dependencies} in the variable @code{AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS}, or
 passing @code{no-dependencies} as an argument to @code{AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE}
-(this should be the prefered way).  Or, you can invoke @code{automake}
+(this should be the preferred way).  Or, you can invoke @code{automake}
 with the @code{-i} option.  Dependency tracking is enabled by default.
 
 @vindex AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS
@@ -4009,7 +4009,7 @@
 All these directory variables have values that start with either
 @address@hidden@}} or @address@hidden@}} unexpanded.  This works
 fine in @file{Makefiles}, but it makes these variables hard to use in
address@hidden  This is mandated by the GNU conding standard, so
address@hidden  This is mandated by the GNU coding standards, so
 that the user can run @code{make prefix=/foo install}.  The Autoconf
 manual has a section with more details on this topic
 (@pxref{Installation Directory Variables, , Installation Directory
@@ -4508,7 +4508,7 @@
 Automake also generates a @code{distcheck} target which can be of help
 to ensure that a given distribution will actually work.
 @code{distcheck} makes a distribution, then tries to do a @code{VPATH}
-build, run the testsuite, and finally make another tarfile to ensure the
+build, run the test suite, and finally make another tarfile to ensure the
 distribution is self-contained.
 @trindex distcheck
 
@@ -4536,8 +4536,8 @@
 variable (@pxref{Clean}).
 @trindex distcleancheck
 
-The @code{distcleancheck} behaviour should be ok for most packages,
-otherwise you have the possibility to override the definitition of
+The @code{distcleancheck} behavior should be OK for most packages,
+otherwise you have the possibility to override the definition of
 either the @code{distcleancheck} target, or the
 @code{$(distcleancheck_listfiles)} variable.  For instance to disable
 @code{distcleancheck} completely, add the following rule to your
@@ -4677,7 +4677,7 @@
 @cindex @file{site.exp}
 Automake will generate rules to create a local @file{site.exp} file,
 defining various variables detected by @code{./configure}.  This file
-is automatically read by DejaGnu.  It is ok for the user of a package
+is automatically read by DejaGnu.  It is OK for the user of a package
 to edit this file in order to tune the test suite.  However this is
 not the place where the test suite author should define new variables:
 this should be done elsewhere in the real test suite code.
@@ -5779,7 +5779,7 @@
 should know there are many places where Automake need to know exactly
 which files should be processed.  As Automake doesn't know how to
 expand @code{$(wildcard ...)}, you cannot use it in these places.
address@hidden(wildcard ...)} is a blackbox comparable to @code{AC_SUBST}ed
address@hidden(wildcard ...)} is a black box comparable to @code{AC_SUBST}ed
 variables as far Automake is concerned.
 
 You can get warnings about @code{$(wildcard ...}) constructs using the

-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz





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