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Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral. |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:24:56 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-10-28) |
This mirrors a similar recent fix to automake.texi.
Any technical reasons against this patch?
The rest of the manual greps ok.
Thanks,
Ralf
Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.
* doc/libtool.texi (Introduction): Use gender-neutral
formulation when addressing developers.
diff --git a/doc/libtool.texi b/doc/libtool.texi
index bbc22f4..051aec3 100644
--- a/doc/libtool.texi
+++ b/doc/libtool.texi
@@ -230,13 +230,13 @@ Platform quirks
@node Introduction
@chapter Introduction
-In the past, if a source code package developer wanted to take advantage
-of the power of shared libraries, he needed to write custom support code
-for each platform on which his package ran. He also had to design a
-configuration interface so that the package installer could choose what
-sort of libraries were built.
+In the past, if you were a source code package developer and wanted to
+take advantage of the power of shared libraries, you needed to write
+custom support code for each platform on which your package ran. You
+also had to design a configuration interface so that the package
+installer could choose what sort of libraries were built.
-GNU Libtool simplifies the developer's job by encapsulating both the
+GNU Libtool simplifies your job by encapsulating both the
platform-specific dependencies, and the user interface, in a single
script. GNU Libtool is designed so that the complete functionality of
each host type is available via a generic interface, but nasty quirks
- Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.,
Ralf Wildenhues <=