* NEWS: Fix typos, grammaros and suboptimal wording.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
---
ChangeLog | 7 ++++++-
NEWS | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2de1027..e13e833 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-12-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Fix typos, grammaros and suboptimal wording.
+ Reported by Jim Meyering.
+
2011-12-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
maint: sync auxiliary files from upstream
@@ -207,7 +212,7 @@
info: allow user to inhibit creation/update of '${infodir}/dir'
With this change, we allow the user to request the install-info
- rules not to update the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the
+ rules not to update the `${infodir}/dir' file, by setting the
environment variable `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
This is especially useful to distro packagers, and is a definite
improvement over our previous hack of looking whether the
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fe1dc97..d40dc26 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ New in 1.11.0a:
the list of options.
- A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
- distcheck" time can now, and indeed he's advised to, do so by defining
+ distcheck" time can now, and indeed is advised to, do so by defining
the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
instead of the old DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.
The DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable should now be reserved for the
- user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it should
+ user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it will
still continue to work as before.
- When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
@@ -64,17 +64,17 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
or "redefinition of TEST_EXTENSIONS), or even, in some situations,
silently producing broken `Makefile.in' files.
- - The `silent-rules' option now also silences all compile rules if dependency
- tracking is disabled. Also, when `silent-rules' is not used, the output
from
- `make' does not contain spurious extra lines with only a backslash in them
- any more; it now again matches that from pre-1.11 Automake.
+ - The `silent-rules' option now truly silences all compile rules, even
+ when dependency tracking is disabled. Also, when `silent-rules' is
+ not used, `make' output no longer contains spurious backslash-only
+ lines, thus once again matching what Automake did before 1.11.
- The `dist-xz' option now uses `xz -9' for maximum compression.
- The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the conditional
is no longer valid for the condition.
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
- "make distcheck" now correctly complains also when "make uninstall"
leaves one and only one file installed in $(prefix).
@@ -98,17 +98,17 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
- AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
- - Several scripts as well as the parallel-tests testsuite driver now
- exit with the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
+ - Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
+ the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
- - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not carry over to the
- handling of other Makefile.am files any more.
+ - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not erroneously carry over
+ to the handling of other Makefile.am files.
- - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other
+ - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is now consistent with that of other
languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
$(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
- - Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
+ - Rules generated by Automake now try harder not to change any files when
`make -n' is invoked. Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
@@ -116,25 +116,25 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
`subdir-objects' option was used.
- - The parallel-tests driver now does not produce erroneous results
- with Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files any more.
+ - The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
+ Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
- - The makedepend and hp depmodes now works better with VPATH builds.
+ - The makedepend and hp depmodes now work better with VPATH builds.
- - Java sources specified with check_JAVA are not compiled anymore upon
- "make all", but only upon "make check".
+ - Java sources specified with check_JAVA are no longer compiled for
+ "make all", but only for "make check".
- An usage like "java_JAVA = foo.java" will now cause Automake to warn
and error out if `javadir' is undefined, instead of silently producing
a broken Makefile.in.
- - Now aclocal and automake, when they've to spawn autoconf or autom4te
- processes, honour the configure-time definitions of AUTOCONF and
- AUTOM4TE.
+ - aclocal and automake now honour the configure-time definitions of
+ AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE when they spawn autoconf or autom4te processes.
- - The `install-info' recipe does not try anymore to guess whether the
+ - The `install-info' recipe no longer tries to guess whether the
`install-info' program is from Debian or from GNU, and adaptively
- change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to regress.
+ change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to
+ regress.
New in 1.11:
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ New in 1.11:
Bugs fixed in 1.11:
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
- Fix aix dependency tracking for libtool objects.
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ New in 1.9:
Bugs fixed in 1.8.5:
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
- Define DIST_SUBDIRS even when the `no-dist' or `cygnus' options are used
so that `make distclean' and `make maintainer-clean' can work.
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.8.5:
Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
- Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
overridden by the user.
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
Bugs fixed in 1.8.3:
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
- Quote filenames in installation rules, in case $DESTDIR, $prefix,
or any of the other *dir variables contain a space.
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