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commit 915d00c655eb3eebc7b9ca7a0b2dfd76ccc87b2a
Merge: 1e19bbfdb39202222d68e44db62e1c50ca7cd8bb 
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Author: Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Jun 6 12:45:07 2010 +0200

    Merge branch 'maint'

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Summary of changes:
 AUTHORS           |    4 ++++
 ChangeLog         |   14 ++++++++++++++
 THANKS            |    1 +
 doc/automake.texi |   30 +++++++++++++++---------------
 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index f1cd414..e63f8b7 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -15,3 +15,7 @@ Alexandre Oliva
 Alexandre Duret-Lutz
   Major overhaul of everything.
   Maintenance since 2002.
+
+Ralf Wildenhues
+  Random breakage.
+  Maintenance since 2006.
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 237da58..ba0d233 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+2010-06-06  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
+
+       Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
+       * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
+       (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
+       (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
+       Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
+       speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
+       or by addressing them as `you' instead.
+       * THANKS: Update.
+       Report by Christina Gratorp.
+
+       * AUTHORS: Update.
+
 2010-06-06  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
 
        Tiny fix in silent8.test (display output of `make' command).
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 1550cc4..d694f48 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Chris Hoogendyk               address@hidden
 Chris Pickett          address@hidden
 Chris Provenzano       address@hidden
 Christian Cornelssen   address@hidden
+Christina Gratorp      address@hidden
 Claudio Fontana                address@hidden
 Clifford Wolf          address@hidden
 Dagobert Michelsen     address@hidden
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index 9d400e9..f5ccca1 100644
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -456,13 +456,13 @@ This chapter is the written version of the first part of 
his tutorial.
 @section Introducing the GNU Build System
 @cindex GNU Build System, introduction
 
-It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a developer in
-possession of a new package, must be in want of a build system.
+It is a truth universally acknowledged, that as a developer in
+possession of a new package, you must be in want of a build system.
 
 In the Unix world, such a build system is traditionally achieved using
 the command @command{make} (@pxref{Top, , Overview, make, The GNU Make
-Manual}).  The developer expresses the recipe to build his package in
-a @file{Makefile}.  This file is a set of rules to build the files in
+Manual}).  You express the recipe to build your package in a
address@hidden  This file is a set of rules to build the files in
 the package.  For instance the program @file{prog} may be built by
 running the linker on the files @file{main.o}, @file{foo.o}, and
 @file{bar.o}; the file @file{main.o} may be built by running the
@@ -725,8 +725,8 @@ installed into @var{docdir}, which defaults to
 
 @opindex --prefix
 
-A user who wishes to install a package on his own account could proceed
-as follows:
+As a user, if you wish to install a package on your own account, you
+could proceed as follows:
 
 @example
 ~/amhello-1.0 % @kbd{./configure --prefix ~/usr}
@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@ copied verbatim into the generated file.  This allows you 
to add
 arbitrary code into the generated @file{Makefile.in}.  For instance,
 the Automake distribution includes a non-standard rule for the
 @code{git-dist} target, which the Automake maintainer uses to make
-distributions from his source control system.
+distributions from the source control system.
 
 @cindex GNU make extensions
 
@@ -10474,7 +10474,7 @@ happen.  CVS's timestamp handling can also let you 
think an
 out-of-date file is up-to-date.
 
 For instance, suppose a developer has modified @file{Makefile.am} and
-has rebuilt @file{Makefile.in}.  He then decides to do a last-minute
+has rebuilt @file{Makefile.in}, and then decides to do a last-minute
 change to @file{Makefile.am} right before checking in both files
 (without rebuilding @file{Makefile.in} to account for the change).
 
@@ -11552,10 +11552,10 @@ standard directory variables (@samp{$(prefix)}, 
@samp{$(bindir)},
 @samp{$(datadir)}, etc.), the effect will be the same:
 user-installations are impossible.
 
-When a (non-root) user wants to install a package, he usually has no
-right to install anything in @file{/usr} or @file{/usr/local}.  So he
-does something like @samp{./configure --prefix ~/usr} to install
-package in his own @file{~/usr} tree.
+As a (non-root) user who wants to install a package, you usually have no
+right to install anything in @file{/usr} or @file{/usr/local}.  So you
+do something like @samp{./configure --prefix ~/usr} to install a
+package in your own @file{~/usr} tree.
 
 If a package attempts to install something to some hard-coded path
 (e.g., @file{/etc/afile}), regardless of this @option{--prefix} setting,
@@ -12572,9 +12572,9 @@ given header file, like this:
 maude.o: maude.c something.h
 @end example
 
-Now suppose that the developer removes @file{something.h} and updates
address@hidden so that this include is no longer needed.  If he runs
address@hidden, he will get an error because there is no way to create
+Now suppose that you remove @file{something.h} and update @file{maude.c}
+so that this include is no longer needed.  If you run @command{make},
+you will get an error because there is no way to create
 @file{something.h}.
 
 We fixed this problem in a later release by further massaging the


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