Pooya Taherkhani wrote:
>> To prepare to use make, you must write a file called the makefile
>> that describes the relationships among files in your program, and the
>> states the commands for updating each file.
> I think "..., and the states the commands for ..." should be "..., and
> states the commands for...". In other words, 'the' before 'states'
> should be removed for the sentence to make sense.
Indeed; to reformat the sentence for clarity:
To prepare to use make, you must write a file called the makefile
that:
* describes the relationships among files in your program, and
* states the commands for updating each file.
(I guess someone thought the break into the list happened *after*
"describes" rather than before it, so wanted nouns (the relationships,
the states) to start the list items; but actually the makefile states
the commands, it doesn't describe the states [of ... whatever], for all
that it tacitly describes how to respond to various states.)
Eddy.
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