* doc/automake.texi (Subpackages): Fix ambiguous wording.

Report and suggestions by Reuben Thomas.
* THANKS: Update.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d38acf5ded29e29af4f42d2136e8da82ce43993b..986ceb8049136ca525895c3b4e9f9f42883439b9 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-01-27  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       * doc/automake.texi (Subpackages): Fix ambiguous wording.
+       Report and suggestions by Reuben Thomas.
+       * THANKS: Update.
+
 2007-01-10  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
        * tests/defs.in (is_newest): Cope with multiple newer files.

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index d0fbce7b4b6fd866f08af8faea986337d2701301..eaff9354abcbc41964cc5fe8938f3e3caa648a84 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ Ralf Menzel         menzel@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de
 Ralf Wildenhues                Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de
 Ralph Schleicher       rs@purple.UL.BaWue.DE
 Ramón García Fernández      ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es
+Reuben Thomas          rrt@sc3d.org
 Rich Wales             richw@webcom.com
 Richard Boulton                richard@tartarus.org
 Richard Dawe           rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk

diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index da9871f93b13918ab6db5496cd7832fee7dcb065..da75509eac29aef197165499d1fd304a41cc9cbd 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -4320,14 +4320,14 @@ self-contained @file{hand-1.2.tar.gz} archive.  So although it appears
 to be embedded in another package, it can still be used separately.
 
 The purpose of the @samp{AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])} instruction is to
-force Automake and Autoconf into search auxiliary script in the
+force Automake and Autoconf to search for auxiliary scripts in the
 current directory.  For instance, this means that there will be two
 copies of @file{install-sh}: one in the top-level of the @code{arm}
 package, and another one in the @file{hand/} subdirectory for the
 @code{hand} package.
 
-The historical default is to search these auxiliary scripts in the
-immediate parent and grand-parent directories.  So if the
+The historical default is to search for these auxiliary scripts in
+the parent directory and the grandparent directory.  So if the
 @samp{AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])} line was removed from
 @file{hand/configure.ac}, that subpackage would share the auxiliary
 script of the @code{arm} package.  This may looks like a gain in size