From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 07:21:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: --help fixlets
X-Git-Tag: Release-1-2b~48
X-Git-Url: https://sourceware.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b9c8bb2efc41c366a7b47fad648da9c9db882576;p=automake.git

--help fixlets
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6caf76a8..f83adf84 100644
--- 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 904e3f5e..b6bc6846 100644
--- 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 af6580d9..73d17993 100755
--- 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;
 }