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FYI: fix some errors in the manual


From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Subject: FYI: fix some errors in the manual
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:52:53 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu)

I've installed this.

2003-02-23  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <address@hidden>

        * automake.texi (FAQ, CVS, maintainer-mode, wildcards)
        (distcleancheck): Fix typos and other errors reported by Karl
        Berry.

Index: automake.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/automake.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.305.2.16
diff -u -r1.305.2.16 automake.texi
--- automake.texi       9 Feb 2003 20:59:23 -0000       1.305.2.16
+++ automake.texi       23 Feb 2003 18:50:14 -0000
@@ -5405,7 +5405,7 @@
 @node FAQ, Macro and Variable Index, API versioning, Top
 @chapter Frequently Asked Questions about Automake
 
-This chapters covers some questions that often come up on the mailing
+This chapter covers some questions that often come up on the mailing
 lists.
 
 @menu
@@ -5559,7 +5559,7 @@
 generated files that will be released actually.  The developer who
 prepares the tarball might be using a version of the tool that
 produces bogus output (for instance a non-portable C file), something
-other developers could have noticed if they weren't using there own
+other developers could have noticed if they weren't using their own
 versions of this tool.
 
 @subsection Third-party files
@@ -5607,7 +5607,7 @@
 wrong versions of maintainer tools may get an error when the rebuild
 rule is spuriously triggered, halting the build.  This failure to let
 the build continue is one of the arguments of the
address@hidden advocators.
address@hidden advocates.
 
 @subsection @code{AM_MAINTAINER_MODE}
 @cindex AM_MAINTAINER_MODE, purpose
@@ -5636,7 +5636,7 @@
 Several years ago François Pinard pointed out several arguments
 against @code{AM_MAINTAINER_MODE}.  Most of them relate to insecurity.
 By removing dependencies you get non-dependable builds: change to
-sources files can have no-effect on generated files and this can be
+sources files can have no effect on generated files and this can be
 very confusing when unnoticed.  He adds that security shouldn't be
 reserved to maintainers (what @code{--enable-maintainer-mode}
 suggests), on the contrary.  If one user has to modify a
@@ -5700,10 +5700,10 @@
 compiled nor installed, so you can't even test it.
 @end itemize
 
-Still, these are philosophic objections, and as such you may disagree,
+Still, these are philosophical objections, and as such you may disagree,
 or find enough value in wildcards to dismiss all of them.  Before you
 start writing a patch against Automake to teach it about wildcards,
-let's see the the main technical issue: portability.
+let's see the main technical issue: portability.
 
 Although @code{$(wildcard ...)} works with GNU @command{make}, it is
 not portable to other @command{make} implementations.
@@ -5715,7 +5715,7 @@
 means developers need to remember they must run @code{automake} each
 time they add, delete, or rename files.
 
-Compared to editing @file{Makefile.am}, this really little win.  Sure,
+Compared to editing @file{Makefile.am}, this is really little win.  Sure,
 it's easier and faster to type @code{automake; make} than to type
 @code{emacs Makefile.am; make}.  But nobody bothered enough to write a
 patch add support for this syntax.  Some people use scripts to
@@ -5769,9 +5769,9 @@
 which we want to build a man page using @command{help2man}.  GNU
 @command{help2man} produces simple manual pages from the @code{--help}
 and @code{--version} output of other commands (@pxref{Top, , Overview,
-help2man, The Help2man Manual}).  Because we don't want our users to
-install @command{help2man}, we decide to distribute the generated man
-page using the following setup.
+help2man, The Help2man Manual}).  Because we don't to force want our
+users to install @command{help2man}, we decide to distribute the
+generated man page using the following setup.
 
 @example
 # This Makefile.am is bogus.
@@ -5878,8 +5878,7 @@
 setting @code{distcleancheck_listfiles} as documented in @ref{Dist}.
 Make sure you do understand the reason why @code{make distcheck}
 complains before you do this.  @code{distcleancheck_listfiles} is a
-way to @emph{hide} errors, not to fix them.  There is always better to
-do.
+way to @emph{hide} errors, not to fix them.  You can always do better.
 
 @page
 @node Macro and Variable Index, General Index, FAQ, Top

-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz





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