I've pushed this trivial typo patch to master, and the automake.in part
to branch-1-10, too.
Cheers,
Ralf
* NEWS: Fix typos.
* automake.in: Fix typos in comments. Remove extraneous
whitespace.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 276e953..57fd45f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ New in 1.10a:
Note that Automake will never overwrite an existing COPYING file,
even when the `--force-missing' option is used.
- - Automake ships and install man pages for automake and aclocal now.
+ - Automake ships and installs man pages for automake and aclocal now.
- New shorthand `$(pkglibexecdir)' for `$(libexecdir)/@PACKAGE@'.
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ New in 1.10a:
Both install and uninstall may sometimes enter (`cd' into) the target
installation directory now, when no build-local scripts are used.
- For builtin rules, `make install' now fails reliably if installation
+ For built-in rules, `make install' now fails reliably if installation
of a file failed. Conversely, `make uninstall' even succeeds when
issued multiple times.
diff --git a/automake.in b/automake.in
index 5ae09c7..66633df 100755
--- a/automake.in
+++ b/automake.in
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ my %required_targets =
'install-man' => 1,
);
-# Set to 1 if this run will create the Makefile.in that distribute
+# Set to 1 if this run will create the Makefile.in that distributes
# the files in config_aux_dir.
my $automake_will_process_aux_dir = 0;
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ my %dep_files;
my @dist_targets;
# Keep track of all programs declared in this Makefile, without
-# $(EXEEXT). @substitution@ are not listed.
+# $(EXEEXT). @substitutions@ are not listed.
my %known_programs;
# Keys in this hash are the basenames of files which must depend on
@@ -6824,7 +6824,7 @@ sub file_contents_internal ($$$%)
my $flat_deps = &flatten ($dependencies);
my @deps = split (' ', $flat_deps);
- foreach (split (' ' , $targets))
+ foreach (split (' ', $targets))
{
# FIXME: 1. We are not robust to people defining several targets
# at once, only some of them being in %dependencies. The
