NEWS: minor improvements and fixed some typos and grammaros

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dcbf65716b27c6acc2cda74f09264daf08846d35..84a5e0a43d46f08c8804ed34fd9e53bdf03cc758 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
     with the SGI C/C++ compilers on IRIX.  The SGI depmode has been
     reported broken "in the wild" already, and we don't think investing
     time in debugging and fixing is worthwhile, especially considering
-    that SGI has last updated those compilers in 2006, and is expected
-    to retire support for them in December 2013:
+    that SGI has last updated those compilers in 2006, and retired
+    support for them in December 2013:
     <http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html>
 
   - Automake 2.0 will remove support for MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/ME
@@ -73,24 +73,24 @@ New in 1.15:
     (3) the "set -f" and "set +f" shell commands work, and, respectively,
         disable and enable shell globbing.
 
-  - The script implements stricter error checking, an it will now complain
-    and bail out if:
-    (1) the options -d and -t are used together;
-    (2) the argument passed to option -t must be a directory;
+  - The script implements stricter error checking, and now it complains
+    and bails out if any of the following expectations is not met:
+    (1) the options -d and -t are never used together;
+    (2) the argument passed to option -t is a directory;
     (3) if there are two or more SOURCEFILE arguments, the
         DESTINATION argument must be a directory.
 
 * Automake-generated testsuites:
 
   - The default test-driver used by the Automake-generates testsuites
-    now append the result and exit status of each "plain" test to the
+    now appends the result and exit status of each "plain" test to the
     associated log file (automake bug#11814).
 
   - The perl implementation of the TAP testsuite driver is no longer
     installed in the Automake's scripts directory, and is instead just
     distributed as a "contrib" addition.  There should be no reason to
     use this implementation anyway in real packages, since the awk+shell
-    implementation of the TAP driver (that is documented in the manual)
+    implementation of the TAP driver (which is documented in the manual)
     is more portable and has feature parity with the perl implementation.
 
   - The rule generating 'test-suite.log' no longer risk incurring in an
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ New in 1.15:
 * Distribution:
 
   - Automake bug#18286: "make distcheck" could sometimes fail to detect
-    missing files in the distribution tarball, especially in those cases
+    files missing from the distribution tarball, especially in those cases
     where both the generated files and their dependencies are explicitly
     in $(srcdir).  An important example of this are *generated* makefile
     fragments included at Automake time in Makefile.am; e.g.:
@@ -117,11 +117,11 @@ New in 1.15:
 
   - As a consequence of the previous change, "make distcheck" will run
     using '$(distdir)/_build/sub' as the build directory, rather than
-    simply '$(distdir)/_build' (as it was with Automake 1.14 and earlier).
-    Consequently, the './configure' and 'make' invocations issued by the
-    distcheck recipe will have $(srcdir) equal to '../..', rather than to
-    just '..' (as it was with Automake 1.14 and earlier).  Dependent and
-    similar variables (e.g., top_srcdir) are also changed accordingly.
+    simply '$(distdir)/_build' (as it was the case for Automake 1.14 and
+    earlier).  Consequently, the './configure' and 'make' invocations
+    issued by the distcheck recipe now have $(srcdir) equal to '../..',
+    rather than to just '..'.  Dependent and similar variables (e.g.,
+    '$(top_srcdir)') are also changed accordingly.
 
     Thus, Makefiles that made assumptions about the exact values of the
     build and source directories used by "make distcheck" will have to
@@ -148,17 +148,17 @@ New in 1.15:
     hash keys order in Perl 5.18.
 
   - In older Automake versions, if a user defined one single Makefile
-    fragment (say 'foo.am') to be included (via Automake includes) in
+    fragment (say 'foo.am') to be included via Automake includes in
     his main Makefile.am, and defined a custom make rule to generate that
-    file from other data, Automake used to spuriously complain about with
-    something like "... overrides Automake target '$(srcdir)/foo.am".
+    file from other data, Automake used to spuriously complain with some
+    message like "... overrides Automake target '$(srcdir)/foo.am".
     This bug is now fixed.
 
   - The user can now extend the special .PRECIOUS target, the same way
     he could already do with the .MAKE .and .PHONY targets.
 
-  - Fixed confusing typos in the manual and in some warning messages
-    (automake bug#16827 and bug#16997).
+  - Some confusing typos have been fixed in the manual and in few warning
+    messages (automake bug#16827 and bug#16997).
 
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