[PATCH] {maint} news: fix typos, grammaros and suboptimal wording

[Stefano Lattarini]

* NEWS: Fix typos, grammaros and suboptimal wording.

Reported by Jim Meyering.
---
 ChangeLog |    7 ++++++-
 NEWS      |   54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2de1027..e13e833 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-12-09  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
+
+       * NEWS: Fix typos, grammaros and suboptimal wording.
+       Reported by Jim Meyering.
+
 2011-12-07  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
 
        maint: sync auxiliary files from upstream
@@ -207,7 +212,7 @@
 
        info: allow user to inhibit creation/update of '${infodir}/dir'
        With this change, we allow the user to request the install-info
-       rules not to update the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the
+       rules not to update the `${infodir}/dir' file, by setting the
        environment variable `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
        This is especially useful to distro packagers, and is a definite
        improvement over our previous hack of looking whether the
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fe1dc97..d40dc26 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ New in 1.11.0a:
     the list of options.
 
   - A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
-    distcheck" time can now, and indeed he's advised to, do so by defining
+    distcheck" time can now, and indeed is advised to, do so by defining
     the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
     instead of the old DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.
     The DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable should now be reserved for the
-    user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it should
+    user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it will
     still continue to work as before.
 
   - When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
@@ -64,17 +64,17 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
     or "redefinition of TEST_EXTENSIONS), or even, in some situations,
     silently producing broken `Makefile.in' files.
 
-  - The `silent-rules' option now also silences all compile rules if dependency
-    tracking is disabled.  Also, when `silent-rules' is not used, the output 
from
-    `make' does not contain spurious extra lines with only a backslash in them
-    any more; it now again matches that from pre-1.11 Automake.
+  - The `silent-rules' option now truly silences all compile rules, even
+    when dependency tracking is disabled.  Also, when `silent-rules' is
+    not used, `make' output no longer contains spurious backslash-only
+    lines, thus once again matching what Automake did before 1.11.
 
   - The `dist-xz' option now uses `xz -9' for maximum compression.
 
   - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the conditional
     is no longer valid for the condition.
 
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
 
   - "make distcheck" now correctly complains also when "make uninstall"
     leaves one and only one file installed in $(prefix).
@@ -98,17 +98,17 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
   - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
     tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
 
-  - Several scripts as well as the parallel-tests testsuite driver now
-    exit with the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
+  - Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
+    the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
 
-  - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not carry over to the
-    handling of other Makefile.am files any more.
+  - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not erroneously carry over
+    to the handling of other Makefile.am files.
 
-  - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other
+  - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is now consistent with that of other
     languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
     $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
 
-  - Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
+  - Rules generated by Automake now try harder not to change any files when
     `make -n' is invoked.  Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
     Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
 
@@ -116,25 +116,25 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
     make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
     `subdir-objects' option was used.
 
-  - The parallel-tests driver now does not produce erroneous results
-    with Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files any more.
+  - The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
+    Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
 
-  - The makedepend and hp depmodes now works better with VPATH builds.
+  - The makedepend and hp depmodes now work better with VPATH builds.
 
-  - Java sources specified with check_JAVA are not compiled anymore upon
-    "make all", but only upon "make check".
+  - Java sources specified with check_JAVA are no longer compiled for
+    "make all", but only for "make check".
 
   - An usage like "java_JAVA = foo.java" will now cause Automake to warn
     and error out if `javadir' is undefined, instead of silently producing
     a broken Makefile.in.
 
-  - Now aclocal and automake, when they've to spawn autoconf or autom4te
-    processes, honour the configure-time definitions of AUTOCONF and
-    AUTOM4TE.
+  - aclocal and automake now honour the configure-time definitions of
+    AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE when they spawn autoconf or autom4te processes.
 
-  - The `install-info' recipe does not try anymore to guess whether the
+  - The `install-info' recipe no longer tries to guess whether the
     `install-info' program is from Debian or from GNU, and adaptively
-    change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to regress.
+    change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to
+    regress.
 
 New in 1.11:
 
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ New in 1.11:
 
 Bugs fixed in 1.11:
 
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
 
   - Fix aix dependency tracking for libtool objects.
 
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ New in 1.9:
 
 Bugs fixed in 1.8.5:
 
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
 
   - Define DIST_SUBDIRS even when the `no-dist' or `cygnus' options are used
     so that `make distclean' and `make maintainer-clean' can work.
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.8.5:
 
 Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
 
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
 
   - Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
     overridden by the user.
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
 
 Bugs fixed in 1.8.3:
 
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
 
   - Quote filenames in installation rules, in case $DESTDIR, $prefix,
     or any of the other *dir variables contain a space.
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