Changeset 2c094d6 for appendixa/autoconf-desc.xml

Timestamp:

09/28/2002 09:08:29 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Timothy Bauscher <timothy@…>

Branches:

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Children:

4d46e012

Parents:

f5cc1c17

Message:

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

File:

• appendixa/autoconf-desc.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

appendixa/autoconf-desc.xml

@@ -12 +12 @@
 <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>
@@ -25 +25 @@
 <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>
@@ -32 +32 @@
 <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>
@@ -47 +47 @@
 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>