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Re: autoupdate fun
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: autoupdate fun |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:30:55 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.9i |
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:33:50PM CET:
> A couple of issues with autoupdate
Stepan's patch forced me to actually read autoupdate.in. I found some
typos in the (well-written!) documentation "how autoupdate functions".
I have applied the patch below to fix them, in the hope that that was ok
to do.
Cheers,
Ralf
* bin/autoupdate.in: Fix some typos.
Index: bin/autoupdate.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/bin/autoupdate.in,v
retrieving revision 1.57
diff -u -r1.57 autoupdate.in
--- bin/autoupdate.in 14 Feb 2006 23:18:51 -0000 1.57
+++ bin/autoupdate.in 22 Mar 2006 12:29:53 -0000
@@ -419,7 +416,7 @@
# The task of `autoupdate' is not trivial: the biggest difficulty being
# that you must limit the changes to the parts that really need to be
# updated. Finding a satisfying implementation proved to be quite hard,
-# as this is the fourth implementation of `autoupdate'.
+# as this is the fifth implementation of `autoupdate'.
#
# Below, we will use a simple example of obsolete macro:
#
@@ -602,7 +599,7 @@
# strings which can become quickly huge, which slows it significantly.
#
# In particular one should avoid as much as possible to use `define' for
-# temporaries. Now that `define' as quite a complex meaning, it is an
+# temporaries. Now that `define' has quite a complex meaning, it is an
# expensive operations that should be limited to macros. Use
# `m4_define' for temporaries.
#
@@ -717,7 +714,7 @@
# No big deal for the semantics (unless the macro depends upon $#, which
# is bad), but the users would not be happy.
#
-# Additionally, we introduced quotes that we not there before, which is
+# Additionally, we introduced quotes that were not there before, which is
# OK in most cases, but could change the semantics of the file.
#
# Cruel dilemma: we do want the auto-quoting definition of `NEW' when
@@ -889,7 +886,7 @@
# # ------------------------------
#
# This approach is heavily based on traces, but then there is an obvious
-# problem: non expanded code will never be seen/ In particular, the body
+# problem: non expanded code will never be seen. In particular, the body
# of a `define' definition is not seen, so on the input
#
# define([idem], [OLD(0, [$1])])
@@ -955,11 +952,11 @@
# this:
#
# `m4save.m4'
-# moves the m4 builtins into the `_au_' pseudo namespace
+# moves the m4 builtins into the `_au_' pseudo namespace,
# `unm4.m4'
-# undefines the builtins
+# undefines the builtins,
# `m4.m4'
-# restores them
+# restores them.
#
# So `input.m4' is:
#
Re: autoupdate fun,
Ralf Wildenhues <=