[PATCH 3/3] automake.texi/ChangeLog

[William Pursell]

commit 7662273966ac796795cfd8fec06a9d8e610767ac
Author: William Pursell <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Nov 22 12:40:21 2008 +0000

    Typos, grammar, and minor changes to texinfo.

    Fixed url of config on savannah. (s/cvs/git/)
    Remove punctuation from top level Include menu item
          for consistency with other menu items.
    Updated ChangeLog

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 06ffd16..a85512b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-11-22  William Pursell  <address@hidden>
+
+       * configure.ac: Quote APIVERSION in AC_SUBST
+       * doc/automake.texi (Sections 1-6.2): Fix typos and grammaros.
+
 2008-11-20  William Pursell  <address@hidden>

        * doc/automake.texi (Timeline): Fix typos and grammaros.
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index 55c417c..e8462e0 100644
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ section entitled address@hidden Free Documentation 
License.''
 * Rebuilding::                  Automatic rebuilding of Makefile
 * Options::                     Changing Automake's behavior
 * Miscellaneous::               Miscellaneous rules
-* Include::                     Including extra files in an Automake template.
+* Include::                     Including extra files in an Automake template
 * Conditionals::                Conditionals
 * Gnits::                       The effect of @option{--gnu} and 
@option{--gnits}
 * Cygnus::                      The effect of @option{--cygnus}
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ On the first host, you could create a local build directory:
 @end example

 @noindent
-(Here we assume the that installer has configured @command{sudo} so it
+(Here we assume that the installer has configured @command{sudo} so it
 can execute @code{make install} with root privileges; it is more convenient
 than using @command{su} like in @ref{Basic Installation}).

@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ Autoconfiscated packages (that means packages whose build 
system have
 been created by Autoconf and friends) can be nested to arbitrary
 depth.

-A typical setup is that a package A will distribute one of the libraries
+A typical setup is that package A will distribute one of the libraries
 it needs in a subdirectory.  This library B is a complete package with
 its own GNU Build System.  The @command{configure} script of A will
 run the @command{configure} script of B as part of its execution,
@@ -1993,7 +1993,7 @@ processes (see for example
 overview on this issue),
 which of course also applies to commands spawned by @command{make}.
 POSIX requires this limit to be at least 4096 bytes, and most modern
-systems have quite high limits, if at all.
+systems have quite high limits (or are unlimited).

 In order to create portable Makefiles that do not trip over these
 limits, it is necessary to keep the length of file lists bounded.
@@ -2111,8 +2111,8 @@ source in case you need more recent versions.
 @table @code
 @item ansi2knr.c
 @itemx ansi2knr.1
-These two files are used by the obsolete de-ANSI-fication support
-(@pxref{ANSI}).
+These two files are used for de-ANSI-fication support (obsolete
address@hidden).

 @item compile
 This is a wrapper for compilers that do not accept options @option{-c}
@@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@ support new architectures and fix probes broken by 
changes in new
 kernel versions.  Each new release of Automake comes with up-to-date
 copies of these programs.  If your copy of Automake is getting old,
 you are encouraged to fetch the latest versions of these files from
address@hidden://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=config} before making a
address@hidden://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=config} before making a
 release.

 @item config-ml.in
@@ -2173,7 +2173,7 @@ This is used to byte-compile Python scripts.

 @item symlink-tree
 This program duplicates a tree of directories, using symbolic links
-instead of copying files.  Such operation is performed when building
+instead of copying files.  Such an operation is performed when building
 multilibs (@pxref{Multilibs}).  This file is maintained in the GCC
 tree at @url{http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html}.

@@ -2427,7 +2427,7 @@ have to run @command{autoconf} yourself for this purpose.
 @opindex -a
 @opindex --add-missing
 Automake requires certain common files to exist in certain situations;
-for instance, @file{config.guess} is required if @file{configure.ac} runs
+for instance, @file{config.guess} is required if @file{configure.ac} invokes
 @code{AC_CANONICAL_HOST}.  Automake is distributed with several of these
 files (@pxref{Auxiliary Programs}); this option will cause the missing
 ones to be automatically added to the package, whenever possible.  In
@@ -2526,7 +2526,7 @@ created.
 Print the version number of Automake and exit.

 @item -W CATEGORY
address@hidden address@hidden
address@hidden address@hidden
 @opindex -W
 @opindex --warnings
 Output warnings falling in @var{category}.  @var{category} can be
@@ -2657,8 +2657,8 @@ file is not considered to be generated by Automake.

 Files created by @code{AC_CONFIG_FILES}, be they Automake
 @file{Makefile}s or not, are all removed by @samp{make distclean}.
-Their inputs are automatically distributed, except for inputs that
-turn out the be outputs of prior @code{AC_CONFIG_FILES} commands.
+Their inputs are automatically distributed, unless they
+are the output of prior @code{AC_CONFIG_FILES} commands.
 Finally, rebuild rules are generated in the Automake @file{Makefile}
 existing in the subdirectory of the output file, if there is one, or
 in the top-level @file{Makefile} otherwise.
@@ -2679,7 +2679,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([output:$file],, [file=$file])
 @command{automake} will output rules to clean @file{output}, and
 rebuild it.  However the rebuild rule will not depend on @file{input},
 and this file will not be distributed either.  (You must add
address@hidden = input} to your @file{Makefile} if @file{input} is a
address@hidden = input} to your @file{Makefile.am} if @file{input} is a
 source file.)

 Similarly
@@ -2806,7 +2806,7 @@ macro.
 @item AC_CONFIG_HEADERS
 Automake will generate rules to rebuild these headers.  Older versions
 of Automake required the use of @code{AM_CONFIG_HEADER}
-(@pxref{Macros}); this is no longer the case today.
+(@pxref{Macros}); this is no longer the case.

 As for @code{AC_CONFIG_FILES} (@pxref{Requirements}), parts of the
 specification using shell variables will be ignored as far as
@@ -2893,7 +2893,7 @@ Autoconf Manual}.
 for each file on which this macro is invoked and will complain if
 the file does not exist.  It
 will also automatically distribute the file.  This macro should be
-used by third-party Autoconf macros that requires some supporting
+used by third-party Autoconf macros that require some supporting
 files in the aux directory specified with @code{AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR}
 above.  @xref{Input, , Finding @command{configure} Input, autoconf,
 The Autoconf Manual}.
@@ -2948,7 +2948,7 @@ generated @file{Makefile.in}s, unless @var{default-mode} 
is
 conditional, which you can use in your own @file{Makefile.am}.
 @xref{maintainer-mode}.

address@hidden AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE(@var{var})
address@hidden AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE(@ovar{var})
 Prevent Automake from defining a variable @var{var}, even if it is
 substituted by @command{config.status}.  Normally, Automake defines a
 @command{make} variable for each @command{configure} substitution,

--
William Pursell