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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-09-10 11:00:35 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-09-10 16:33:56 +0200
commitd9bc0d0d22b159f1a0b2cb11d4efd759921da238 (patch)
treeeee026f2bb703746e9e1a524f7e27df97893ba53 /build-aux
parent57da212a95054cc230ffb00f38ea655c798926f8 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-d9bc0d0d22b159f1a0b2cb11d4efd759921da238.tar.xz
maint: gen-lists-of-programs.sh: improve comments
* build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh: Improve comments.
Diffstat (limited to 'build-aux')
-rwxr-xr-xbuild-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh b/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh
index 9ca46cf5d..de9ff6422 100755
--- a/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh
+++ b/build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Generate lists of all coreutils programs, to be fed both to Autoconf
# and Automake, and with further distinctions about how and when these
-# programs should be built. This is useful to avoid duplicating the
-# definitions of these list among several files ('configure.ac' and
+# programs should be built. This is useful to avoid duplicating these
+# list definitions list among several files ('configure.ac' and
# 'src/local.mk' at least); such duplication had proved a source of
# inconsistencies and bugs in the past.
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ disabled_by_default_progs='
'
# Programs that can be built only when certain requisite system
-# features are detected. These prerequisites will be looked for
-# at configure runtime.
+# features are detected at configure time.
build_if_possible_progs='
chroot
df
@@ -148,7 +147,7 @@ case $#,$1 in
echo "no_install_progs_default='`echo $disabled_by_default_progs`'"
sed 's/^ *//' <<END
# Given the name of a variable containing a space-separated
- # list of install-by-default programs and the actual list
+ # list of install-by-default programs and the actual list of
# do-not-install-by-default programs, modify the former variable
# to reflect any "do-install" and "don't-install" requests.
# That is, add any program specified via --enable-install-program,