From: Ralf Wildenhues Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:42:33 +0000 (+0100) Subject: * doc/automake.texi (DESTDIR, Built sources example): Fix wording. X-Git-Tag: v1.10b~177 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=74e58c6e30549040ff4c079628a52556135958f0;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git * doc/automake.texi (DESTDIR, Built sources example): Fix wording. * THANKS: Update. Reports and suggestions by William Pursell and nightstrike@gmail.com. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c6a1992b5..5c0837147 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2008-01-14 Ralf Wildenhues + + * doc/automake.texi (DESTDIR, Built sources example): Fix wording. + * THANKS: Update. + Reports and suggestions by William Pursell and nightstrike@gmail.com. + 2008-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues Do not fail if `autoupdate' is not present. diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 58aa2b921..f84e625fb 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe@math.utah.edu Nicholas Wourms nwourms@netscape.net Nicolas Joly njoly@pasteur.fr Nicolas Thiery nthiery@Icare.mines.edu +NightStrike nightstrike@gmail.com Nik A. Melchior nam1@cse.wustl.edu NISHIDA Keisuke knishida@nn.iij4u.or.jp Noah Friedman friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu @@ -312,6 +313,7 @@ Vincent Lefevre vincent@vinc17.org Volker Boerchers vboerchers@tecon.de Werner John john@oswf.de Werner Koch wk@isil.d.shuttle.de +William Pursell bill.pursell@gmail.com William S Fulton wsf@fultondesigns.co.uk Yann Droneaud ydroneaud@meuh.eu.org Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi index 8e5bc5d2b..8b51080c3 100644 --- a/doc/automake.texi +++ b/doc/automake.texi @@ -1084,11 +1084,11 @@ inappropriate. The @code{DESTDIR} variable can be used to perform a staged installation. The package should be configured as if it was going to be installed in its final location (e.g., @code{--prefix /usr}), but -when running @code{make install} the @code{DESTDIR} should be set to -the absolute name of a directory in which all the installation will be +when running @code{make install}, the @code{DESTDIR} should be set to +the absolute name of a directory into which the installation will be diverted. From this directory it is easy to review which files are being installed where, and finally copy them to their final location -by any means. +by some means. @cindex Binary package @@ -6916,8 +6916,8 @@ foo.c:2: bindir.h: No such file or directory make: *** [foo.o] Error 1 @end example -In this example @file{bindir.h} is not distributed, not installed, and -it is not even being built on-time. One may wonder what the +In this example @file{bindir.h} is not distributed nor installed, and +it is not even being built on-time. One may wonder if the @samp{nodist_foo_SOURCES = bindir.h} line has any use at all. This line simply states that @file{bindir.h} is a source of @code{foo}, so for instance, it should be inspected while generating tags