+2001-03-27 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
+
+ * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor tweaks.
+
2001-03-27 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
* Makefile.am, configure.in: autoupdate is a Perl script.
@node The GNU build system, Making configure Scripts, Introduction, Top
@chapter The GNU build system
-@emph{This chapter is still under work. It will be ready for the
-release, but most probably not for the next betas.}
+@emph{This chapter is still under construction. It will hopefully be ready
+for the release.}
I'm unsure about the title.
@end example
@item No leading dot (@sc{sfn})
-@sc{dos} cannot handle filenames that start with a dot. This is an especially
-important thing to remember when building a portable configure script,
-as @command{autoconf} uses a .in suffix for template files.
+@sc{dos} cannot handle filenames that start with a dot. This is usually
+not a very important issue for @command{autoconf}.
@item Case insensitivity (@sc{lfn})
@sc{dos} is case insensitive, so you cannot, for example, have both a
tails in the short version of filenames to make them unique. However,
a registry setting can turn this behaviour off. While this makes it
possible to share file trees containing long file names between @sc{sfn}
-and @sc{lfn} environments, it also means the above problem also applies.
+and @sc{lfn} environments, it also means the above problem applies there
+as well.
@item Illegal characters
Some characters are illegal in @sc{dos} filenames, and should therefore