FYI: minor NEWS edits

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

I'm checking this in.

2003-11-11  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <address@hidden>

        * NEWS: Minor edits.
 
Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.241
diff -u -r1.241 NEWS
--- NEWS        10 Nov 2003 20:55:30 -0000      1.241
+++ NEWS        11 Nov 2003 13:16:37 -0000
@@ -56,7 +56,9 @@
     Note that if you were using the CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES and
     CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES (undocumented) variables, you should better
     define them in all directories.  This is easily done using an
-    AC_SUBST.
+    AC_SUBST (make sure you prefix these dependencies with
+    $(abs_top_srcdir) since this variable will appear at different
+    levels of the build tree).
 
   - aclocal will now use `m4_include' instead of copying local m4
     files into aclocal.m4.  (Local m4 files are those you ship with
@@ -71,14 +73,12 @@
     Autom4te's cache isn't needlessly invalidated.  This behavior can
     be switched off with the new `--force' option.
 
-  - aclocal now uses Autoconf's --trace to detect macros which are actually
-    used and will no longer include unused macros simply because they
-    where mentioned.  This was often the case for macros called
-    conditionally.
+  - aclocal now uses Autoconf's --trace to detect macros which are
+    actually used and will no longer include unused macros simply
+    because they where mentioned.  This was often the case for macros
+    called conditionally.
 
-  - New option no-dist-gzip.
-
-  - New option no-dist.
+  - New options no-dist and no-dist-gzip.
 
   - compile, depcomp, elisp-comp, install-sh, mdate-sh, mkinstalldirs,
     py-compile, and ylwrap, now all understand --version and --help.
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
     links as part of the distclean target and including source files in
     distributions.
 
-  - AM_PATH_PYTHON now support ACTION-IF-FOUND and ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND
+  - AM_PATH_PYTHON now supports ACTION-IF-FOUND and ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND
     argument.  The latter can be used to override the default behavior
     (which is to abort).
 
@@ -100,8 +100,7 @@
 
   - When using AC_CONFIG_FILES with multiple input files, Automake
     generates the first ".in" input file for which a ".am" exists.
-    (Former versions would try to use only the first of the input
-    files.)
+    (Former versions would try to use only the first input file.)
 
   - lisp_DATA is now allowed.  If you are using the empty ELCFILES
     idiom to disable byte-compilation of lisp_LISP files, it is
@@ -120,13 +119,13 @@
 
   - Because `mkdir -p' is available on most platforms, and we can use
     `install-sh -d' when it is not, the use of the mkinstalldirs
-    script is deprecated.  `automake --add-missing' no longer installs
-    it, and if you remove mkinstalldirs from your package, automake
-    will define $(mkinstalldirs) as an alias for $(mkdir_p).
+    script is being phased out.  `automake --add-missing' no longer
+    installs it, and if you remove mkinstalldirs from your package,
+    automake will define $(mkinstalldirs) as an alias for $(mkdir_p).
 
-    Gettext 1.12.1 still require mkinstalldirs.  Fortunately
+    Gettext 1.12.1 still requires mkinstalldirs.  Fortunately
     gettextize and autopoint will install it when needed.  Automake
-    will continue to define the $(mkinstalldirs) and distribute
+    will continue to define the $(mkinstalldirs) and to distribute
     mkinstalldirs when this script is in the source tree.
 
   - AM_PROG_CC_STDC is now empty.  The content of this macro was

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz