[automake-commit] branch master updated: docs: forgot TAR in NEWS; fix " -- " in manual.

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commit c838e0428cd4c1566b78fb0d1aab398e86c37d6f
Author: Karl Berry <address@hidden>
AuthorDate: Mon May 25 18:30:53 2020 -0700

    docs: forgot TAR in NEWS; fix " -- " in manual.
    
    * NEWS: it seems the TAR envvar was never mentioned in NEWS;
    add it, back for 1.11.3 when it was apparently implemented.
    * doc/automake.texi: consistently use "---" instead of " --".
---
 NEWS              | 1 +
 doc/automake.texi | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fc3f2de..8650db0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1389,6 +1389,7 @@ New in 1.11.3:
     script.  Similarly, the obsolescent variable '$(AMTAR)' (which you
     shouldn't be using BTW ;-) no longer invokes the 'missing' script
     to wrap tar, but simply invokes the 'tar' program itself.
+    The TAR environment variable overrides.
 
   - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs.
 
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index 332cac1..b2afca9 100644
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -8419,7 +8419,7 @@ distribution.  The file is named based on the 
@code{PACKAGE} and
 @code{AC_INIT} invocation or by a @emph{deprecated} two-arguments
 invocation of the @code{AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE} macro (see @ref{Public Macros}
 for how these variables get their values, from either defaults or explicit
-values -- it's slightly trickier than one would expect).
+values---it's slightly trickier than one would expect).
 More precisely the gzipped @code{tar} file is named
 @samp{$@{PACKAGE@}-$@{VERSION@}.tar.gz}.
 
@@ -8882,7 +8882,7 @@ Sometimes, tests can rely on non-portable tools or 
prerequisites, or
 simply make no sense on a given system (for example, a test checking a
 Windows-specific feature makes no sense on a GNU/Linux system).  In this
 case, accordingly to the definition above, the tests can neither be
-considered passed nor failed; instead, they are @emph{skipped} -- i.e.,
+considered passed nor failed; instead, they are @emph{skipped}- --i.e.,
 they are not run, or their result is anyway ignored for what concerns
 the count of failures and successes.  Skips are usually explicitly
 reported though, so that the user will be aware that not all of the