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diff --git a/appendixa/autoconf-desc.xml b/appendixa/autoconf-desc.xml index e6a96c78c..d038efbed 100644 --- a/appendixa/autoconf-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/autoconf-desc.xml @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ ifnames</para></sect3> <sect4><title>autoconf</title> <para>autoconf is a tool for producing shell scripts that automatically configure software source code packages to adapt to many kinds of -Unix-like systems. The configuration scripts produced by autoconf are +Unix-like systems. The configuration scripts produced by autoconf are independent of autoconf when they are run, so their users do not need to have autoconf.</para></sect4> @@ -24,18 +24,18 @@ statements for configure to use.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>autoreconf</title> <para>If there are a lot of autoconf-generated configure scripts, the -autoreconf program can save some work. It runs autoconf (and -autoheader, where appropriate) repeatedly to remake the autoconf +autoreconf program can save some work. It runs autoconf and +autoheader (where appropriate) repeatedly to remake the autoconf configure scripts and configuration header templates in the directory tree rooted at the current directory.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>autoscan</title> <para>The autoscan program can help to create a configure.in file for -a software package. autoscan examines source files in the directory -tree rooted at a directory given as a command line argument, or the -current directory if none is given. It searches the source files for -common portability problems and creates a file configure.scan which -is a preliminary configure.in for that package.</para></sect4> +a software package. autoscan examines the source files in a directory +tree. If a directory is not specified on the command line, then the +current working directory is used. The source files are searched for +common portability problems and a configure.scan file is created to +serve as the preliminary configure.in for that package.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>autoupdate</title> <para>The autoupdate program updates a configure.in file that calls @@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ macro names.</para></sect4> <para>ifnames can help when writing a configure.in for a software package. It prints the identifiers that the package already uses in C preprocessor conditionals. If a package has already been set up to -have some portability, this program can help to figure out what its -configure needs to check for. It may help fill in some gaps in a -configure.in generated by autoscan.</para></sect4> +have some portability, this program can help to determine what configure +needs to check. It may fill in some gaps in a configure.in file generated +by autoscan.</para></sect4> </sect3> |