--help fixlets

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6caf76a86b6202ef497a0f33d1f37312edbf98a9..f83adf84e631f6e9974780ed17c165c8f58b6ae6 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 Thu Jul 24 00:52:02 1997  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
 
+       Suggestion from Karl Berry:
+       * automake.in (usage): Added short info line.
+       * aclocal.in (usage): Updated bug-reporting address.  Added short
+       info line.
+
        * automake.in (handle_emacs_lisp): Put contents of lisp-clean.am
        into output.  From Karl Berry.
 

diff --git a/aclocal.in b/aclocal.in
index 904e3f5e7f852a8dee7993b5f5841f94a9344e3b..b6bc6846d1991f21cc30367d786ca2311bcae0e9 100644 (file)
--- a/aclocal.in
+++ b/aclocal.in
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ sub usage
 {
     local ($status) = @_;
 
-    print "Usage: aclocal [OPTIONS] ...\n";
-    print "\
+    print "Usage: aclocal [OPTIONS] ...\n\n";
+    print "Generate aclocal.m4 by scanning configure.in\n
   --acdir=DIR           directory holding config files
   --help                print this help, then exit
   -I DIR                add directory to search list for .m4 files
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ sub usage
   --verbose             don't be silent
   --version             print version number, then exit
 
-Report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils\@prep.ai.mit.edu>\n";
+Report bugs to <automake-bugs\@prep.ai.mit.edu>.\n";
 
     exit $status;
 }

diff --git a/automake.in b/automake.in
index af6580d9115d2a705e047485965e64124f9b6543..73d17993132c83682c51e36c94f69f1f2f2d61d1 100755 (executable)
--- a/automake.in
+++ b/automake.in
@@ -6064,7 +6064,8 @@ sub keyed_aclocal_warning
 # Print usage information.
 sub usage
 {
-    print "Usage: automake [OPTION] ... [Makefile]...\n";
+    print "Usage: automake [OPTION] ... [Makefile]...\n\n";
+    print "Generate Makefile.in for autoconf from Makefile.am\n";
     print $USAGE;
     print "\nFiles which are automatically distributed, if found:\n";
     $~ = "USAGE_FORMAT";
@@ -6079,7 +6080,7 @@ sub usage
        write;
     }
 
-    print "\nReport bugs to <automake-bugs\@gnu.ai.mit.edu>\n";
+    print "\nReport bugs to <automake-bugs\@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.\n";
 
     exit 0;
 }