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authorStefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>2012-10-14 11:54:45 +0200
committerStefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>2012-10-14 11:54:45 +0200
commitae74aa69705e967a19327c70a26c0004843e8e7b (patch)
tree5d48d6ed18087cfc13f2792da419938ff11a4fc9
parent6a0460c49f401a58a9ffff1e65690da90690c002 (diff)
downloadautomake-ae74aa69705e967a19327c70a26c0004843e8e7b.tar.gz
NEWS: fix wording and grammaros, re-wrap text accordingly
Reported-by: Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ New in 1.12.1:
- Use of the long-deprecated two- and three-arguments invocation forms
of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro now elicits a warning in the 'obsolete'
category. Starting from some future major Automake release (likely
- post-1.13), such usages will be no longer allowed.
+ post-1.13), such usages will no longer be allowed.
- Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (enabled by the 'cygnus' option) is
now deprecated (its use triggers a warning in the 'obsolete' category).
@@ -196,13 +196,12 @@ New in 1.12.1:
* Miscellaneous changes:
- The Automake test cases now require a proper POSIX-conforming shell.
- Older non-POSIX Bourne shells (like Solaris 10 /bin/sh) will be no
- longer accepted. In most cases, the user shouldn't have to specify
- such POSIX shell explicitly, since it will be looked up at configure
- time. Still, when this lookup fails, or when the user wants to
- override its conclusion, the variable 'AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL' can be
- used (pointing to the shell that will be used to run the Automake
- test cases).
+ Older non-POSIX Bourne shells (like Solaris 10 /bin/sh) will no longer
+ be accepted. In most cases, the user shouldn't have to specify such
+ POSIX shell explicitly, since it will be looked up at configure time.
+ Still, when this lookup fails, or when the user wants to override its
+ conclusion, the variable 'AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL' can be used (pointing
+ to the shell that will be used to run the Automake test cases).
Bugs fixed in 1.12.1:
@@ -573,7 +572,7 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.3:
- Automake now correctly recognizes the prefix/primary combination
'pkglibexec_SCRIPTS' as valid.
- - The parallel-tests harness now doesn't trip on sed implementations
+ - The parallel-tests harness no longer trips on sed implementations
with stricter limits on the length of input lines (problem seen at
least on Solaris 8).