From 2c094d60db777dce20fd4eccf4996299c2a0dfe0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy Bauscher Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 21:08:29 +0000 Subject: Applied Bill Maltby's grammar patch. Changed $LFS to LFS where appropriate. Internal XML cleanup: removed double spacing where appropriate. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2138 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/autoconf-desc.xml | 22 +++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/autoconf-desc.xml') 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 autoconf 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. @@ -24,18 +24,18 @@ statements for configure to use. autoreconf 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. autoscan 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. +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. autoupdate The autoupdate program updates a configure.in file that calls @@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ macro names. 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. +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. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf