build-sys: improve wording and punctuation of several messages

Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index d0b340fd9..546d468bb 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ autopoint_fun ()
 		sed -n -e 's/.* \(0\.18\|0\.18\.[1-2]\)$/\1/p'`
 
 	if [ -n "$gt_ver" ]; then
-		echo "warning, force autopoint to use old gettext $gt_ver"
+		echo "warning: forcing autopoint to use old gettext $gt_ver"
 		rm -f configure.ac.autogenbak
 		sed -i.autogenbak configure.ac \
 			-e "s/\(AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION\).*/\1([$gt_ver])/"
@@ -41,41 +41,41 @@ autopoint_fun ()
 
 test -f sys-utils/mount.c || {
 	echo
-	echo "You must run this script in the top-level util-linux directory"
+	echo "You must run this script in the top-level util-linux directory."
 	echo
 	DIE=1
 }
 
 (autopoint --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
         echo
-        echo "You must have autopoint installed to generate util-linux build system."
+        echo "You must have autopoint installed to generate the util-linux build system."
         echo "The autopoint command is part of the GNU gettext package."
 	echo
         DIE=1
 }
 (autoconf --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
 	echo
-	echo "You must have autoconf installed to generate util-linux build system."
+	echo "You must have autoconf installed to generate the util-linux build system."
 	echo
 	DIE=1
 }
 (autoheader --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
 	echo
-	echo "You must have autoheader installed to generate util-linux build system."
+	echo "You must have autoheader installed to generate the util-linux build system."
 	echo "The autoheader command is part of the GNU autoconf package."
 	echo
 	DIE=1
 }
 (libtoolize --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
 	echo
-	echo "You must have libtool-2 installed to generate util-linux build system."
+	echo "You must have libtool-2 installed to generate the util-linux build system."
 	echo
 	DIE=1
 }
 (automake --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
 	echo
-	echo "You must have automake installed to generate util-linux build system."
-	echo 
+	echo "You must have automake installed to generate the util-linux build system."
+	echo
 	DIE=1
 }
 
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ if test "$DIE" -eq 1; then
 fi
 
 echo
-echo "Generate build-system by:"
+echo "Generating build-system with:"
 echo "   autopoint:  $(autopoint --version | head -1)"
 echo "   aclocal:    $(aclocal --version | head -1)"
 echo "   autoconf:   $(autoconf --version | head -1)"