From d34be891faf651d81d86306e19793fa570157d4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralf Wildenhues Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:17:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * doc/automake.texi (Subpackages): Fix ambiguous wording. Report and suggestions by Reuben Thomas. * THANKS: Update. --- ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ THANKS | 1 + doc/automake.texi | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index d38acf5d..986ceb80 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2007-01-27 Ralf Wildenhues + + * doc/automake.texi (Subpackages): Fix ambiguous wording. + Report and suggestions by Reuben Thomas. + * THANKS: Update. + 2007-01-10 Ralf Wildenhues * tests/defs.in (is_newest): Cope with multiple newer files. diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index d0fbce7b..eaff9354 100644 --- 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 da9871f9..da75509e 100644 --- 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 -- 2.43.5