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[SCM] GNU Autoconf source repository branch, master, updated. v2.61a-391


From: Stepan Kasal
Subject: [SCM] GNU Autoconf source repository branch, master, updated. v2.61a-391-gad77d1d
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:34:00 +0000

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- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
commit ad77d1d72cdc7819ba89547962eced03d1324c68
Author: Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Mar 19 11:52:35 2008 +0100

    * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Improve the paraphrase of
    Henry Spencer's quotation.
    
    Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog         |    5 +++++
 doc/autoconf.texi |   10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f418e21..6815dad 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-03-19  Stepan Kasal  <address@hidden>
+
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Improve the paraphrase of
+       Henry Spencer's quotation.
+
 2008-03-19  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
 
        AC_CONFIG_HEADERS replaced AC_CONFIG_HEADER.
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 7cee3db..0710397 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -678,10 +678,12 @@ reason, it needs to be changed in only one place; all of 
the
 configuration scripts can be regenerated automatically to take advantage
 of the updated code.
 
-Those who do not understand Autoconf are doomed to reinvent it.  The
-primary goal of Autoconf is making the @emph{user's} life easier; making
-the @emph{maintainer's} life easier is only a secondary goal.  Put
-another way, the primary goal is not to make the generation of
address@hidden "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, 
poorly."
address@hidden --Henry Spencer, 1987 (see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy)
+Those who do not understand Autoconf are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
+The primary goal of Autoconf is making the @emph{user's} life easier;
+making the @emph{maintainer's} life easier is only a secondary goal.
+Put another way, the primary goal is not to make the generation of
 @file{configure} automatic for package maintainers (although patches
 along that front are welcome, since package maintainers form the user
 base of Autoconf); rather, the goal is to make @file{configure}


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