From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] configure --help message for grub-emu
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:31:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C3DAE21.3040208@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <115962.4331.qm@web57404.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On 07/14/2010 05:23 AM, Jason Butler wrote:
> Here is a patch to have configure --help print the build instructions for grub-emu
>
>
I'm fine with the principle. However in your patch the syntax of help
message seems unclear for me. Is it 2 sentences? If it's the same
sentence as the punctuation suggests then it sounds like
"select the host platform for grub-emu"
I recommend asking someone with English native language to fix this.
> --- On Tue, 7/13/10, Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>
>> From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: configure --help message for grub-emu
>> To: "The development of GNU GRUB" <grub-devel@gnu.org>
>> Received: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 AM
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 06:59:10PM
>> -0700, Jason Butler wrote:
>>
>>> I want to alter the configure script so the --help
>>>
>> prints the
>>
>>> instructions for building grub-emu. I saw it was asked
>>>
>> a couple times
>>
>>> in #grub where to get it. I think this means altering
>>>
>> the configure.ac
>>
>>> file but some open source projects generate
>>>
>> configure.ac from a
>>
>>> script.
>>>
>> This is rare; configure.ac is normally a source file.
>>
>>
>>> Is configure.ac the correct file to alter?
>>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> --
>> Colin Watson
>>
>> [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]
>>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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2010-07-14 3:23 Re:[Patch] configure --help message for grub-emu Jason Butler
2010-07-14 12:31 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2010-07-15 15:40 ` [Patch] " Jason Butler
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