Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:09:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/38880: Typo fixes in doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml Message-ID: <200206040309.g5439Nx04058@guest.reppep.com>
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>Number: 38880
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Typo fixes in doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jun 03 20:10:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Chris Pepper
>Release: FreeBSD 4.6-RC i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD guest.reppep.com 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #0: Fri May 31 22:33:23 EDT 2002 root@guest.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
Clean up some typos.
Fix some odd quote tags -- they appeared to work, but were confusing, e.g., "<quote/make world/"
put 'make' into an entity.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Proposed patch follows.
--- chapter.sgml.diff begins here ---
Index: chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.125
diff -u -r1.125 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml 2002/05/22 04:37:41 1.125
+++ chapter.sgml 2002/06/04 03:05:47
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@
</sect2>
<sect2>
- <title>Update the files of <filename>/etc</filename></title>
+ <title>Update the files in <filename>/etc</filename></title>
<para>The <filename>/etc</filename> directory contains a large part
of your system's configuration information, as well as scripts
@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@
files, determining how they differ with your existing files.</para>
<para>Note that some of the files that will have been installed in
- <filename>/var/tmp/root</filename> have a leading <quote/./. At the
+ <filename>/var/tmp/root</filename> have a leading <quote>.</quote>. At the
time of writing the only files like this are shell startup files in
<filename>/var/tmp/root/</filename> and
<filename>/var/tmp/root/root/</filename>, although there may be others
@@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@
<para>At the end of the day, it is your call. You might be happy
re-making the world every fortnight say, and let changes
accumulate over that fortnight. Or you might want to re-make
- just those things that have changed, and are confident you can
+ just those things that have changed, and be confident you can
spot all the dependencies.</para>
<para>And, of course, this all depends on how often you want to
@@ -1495,14 +1495,14 @@
<para><filename>/usr/obj</filename> contains all the object files
that were produced during the compilation phase. Normally, one
- of the first steps in the <quote/make world/ process is to
+ of the first steps in the <quote>make world</quote> process is to
remove this directory and start afresh. In this case, keeping
<filename>/usr/obj</filename> around after you have finished
makes little sense, and will free up a large chunk of disk space
(currently about 340MB).</para>
<para>However, if you know what you are doing you can have
- <quote/make world/ skip this step. This will make subsequent
+ <quote>make world</quote> skip this step. This will make subsequent
builds run much faster, since most of sources will not need to
be recompiled. The flip side of this is that subtle dependency
problems can creep in, causing your build to fail in odd ways.
@@ -1511,8 +1511,8 @@
realising that it is because they have tried to cut
corners.</para>
- <para>If you want to live dangerously then make the world, passing
- the <makevar>NOCLEAN</makevar> definition to <command>make</command>, like
+ <para>If you want to live dangerously then <command>make</command> the world, passing
+ the <makevar>NOCLEAN</makevar> option to the <command>make</command>, like
this:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>make -DNOCLEAN world</userinput></screen>
@@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Pass the <option>-j<n></option> option to make to
+ <para>Pass the <option>-j<n></option> option to &man.make.1; to
run multiple processes in parallel. This usually helps
regardless of whether you have a single or a multi processor
machine.</para>
--- chapter.sgml.diff ends here ---
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