to be portable and to conform to the GNU standards for @file{Makefile}
variables and targets.
-At this point, the last release of Autoconf is version 1.11, and
-David is preparing to release Autoconf 2.0 in late October. As a
-matter of fact, he will almost not touch Automake after September.
+At this point, the most recent release of Autoconf is version 1.11,
+and David is preparing to release Autoconf 2.0 in late October. As a
+matter of fact, he will barely touch Automake after September.
@item 1994-11-05 David MacKenzie's last commit.
@end quotation
Automake is described as ``an experimental Makefile generator''.
-There is no documentation. Adventurous users are refereed to example
-and patches needed to use Automake with GNU m4 1.3, fileutils 3.9,
-time 1.6, and development versions of find and indent.
+There is no documentation. Adventurous users are referred to the
+examples and patches needed to use Automake with GNU m4 1.3, fileutils
+3.9, time 1.6, and development versions of find and indent.
These examples seem to have been lost. However at the time of writing
(10 years later in September, 2004) the FSF still distributes a
grabbed it and tried it out.
Tom didn't talk to djm about it until later, just to make sure he
-didn't mind if he did a release. He did a bunch of early releases to
+didn't mind if he made a release. He did a bunch of early releases to
the Gnits folks.
Gnits was (and still is) totally informal, just a few GNU friends who
hello_SOURCES = hello.c
@end example
-This looks pretty much like we do today, except the @code{PROGRAMS}
-variable has no directory prefix specifying where @file{hello} should
-be installed: all programs are installed in @code{$(bindir)}.
-@code{LIBPROGRAMS} can be used to specify programs that must be built
-but not installed (it is called @code{noinst_PROGRAMS} nowadays).
+This looks pretty much like what we do today, except the
+@code{PROGRAMS} variable has no directory prefix specifying where
+@file{hello} should be installed: all programs are installed in
+@code{$(bindir)}. @code{LIBPROGRAMS} can be used to specify programs
+that must be built but not installed (it is called
+@code{noinst_PROGRAMS} nowadays).
Programs can be built conditionally using @code{AC_SUBST}itutions:
Extra files to distribute must be listed in @code{DIST_OTHER} (the
ancestor of @code{EXTRA_DIST}). Also extra directories that are to be
distributed should appear in @code{DIST_SUBDIRS}, but the manual
-describe this as a temporary ugly hack (today extra directories should
+describes this as a temporary ugly hack (today extra directories should
also be listed in @code{EXTRA_DIST}, and @code{DIST_SUBDIRS} is used
for another purpose, see @ref{Conditional Subdirectories}).
@file{configure.in} to better automate the Autoconf integration.
0.28 also introduces the @code{AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS} variable and the
-@code{--gnu} and @code{--gnits} options, the later being stricter.
+@code{--gnu} and @code{--gnits} options, the latter being stricter.
@item 1996-02-07 Automake 0.29
@item 1996-02-24 Automake 0.30
The test suite is born. It contains 9 tests. From now on test cases
-will be added pretty much regularly (@pxref{Releases}), and this
-proved to be really helpful later on.
+will be added pretty regularly (@pxref{Releases}), and this proved to
+be really helpful later on.
@code{EXTRA_PROGRAMS} finally replaces @code{AM_PROGRAMS}.
@item 1996-05-28 Automake 1.0
After only six months of heavy development, the automake script is
-3134 line long, plus 973 lines of @file{Makefile} fragments. The
+3134 lines long, plus 973 lines of @file{Makefile} fragments. The
package has 30 pages of documentation, and 38 test cases.
@file{aclocal.m4} contains 4 macros.
Between June and October, the Autoconf development is almost staled.
Roland McGrath has been working at the beginning of the year. David
comes back in November to release 2.12, but he won't touch Autoconf
-anymore after this year, and Autoconf then really stales. The
-desolated Autoconf @file{ChangeLog} for 1997 lists only 7 commits.
+anymore after this year, and Autoconf then really stagnates. The
+desolate Autoconf @file{ChangeLog} for 1997 lists only 7 commits.
@item 1997-02-28 @email{automake@@gnu.ai.mit.edu} list alive
-- Tom Tromey on @email{autoconf@@gnu.org}
@end quotation
-Actually Akim works like a submarine: he will pile up patches when he
-work off-line on week-end, and flush them in batch when he surfaces
-back on Monday.
+Actually Akim works like a submarine: he will pile up patches while he
+works off-line during the weekend, and flush them in batch when he
+resurfaces on Monday.
@item 2001-01-24
@item 2002-04-11 Automake 1.6.1
1.6, and the upcoming 1.4-p6 release were the last release by Tom.
-This one and the followings will be handled by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
-Tom is still around, and will be there until about 1.7, but his
-interest into Automake is drifting away towards projects like
+This one and the those following will be handled by Alexandre
+Duret-Lutz. Tom is still around, and will be there until about 1.7,
+but his interest into Automake is drifting away towards projects like
@command{gcj}.
Alexandre has been using Automake since 2000, and started to
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