From: Akim Demaille Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:03:51 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor tweaks. X-Git-Tag: autoconf-2.50~78 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73c36c1b774cc09f6657628b25e227745f03e592;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor tweaks. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e500079a0..64396d612 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2001-03-27 Tim Van Holder + + * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor tweaks. + 2001-03-27 Tim Van Holder * Makefile.am, configure.in: autoupdate is a Perl script. diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index d4b46da8b..1fb62fa11 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -487,8 +487,8 @@ Peter Simons}. @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. @@ -5316,9 +5316,8 @@ AC_OUTPUT @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 @@ -5338,7 +5337,8 @@ Note: This is not usually a problem under Windows, as it uses numeric 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