Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 08:36:15 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Typo in Developers Handbook Message-ID: <20041209083615.254a8c7b@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20041209114756.GA4933@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <f2cf141b04120717215c63b0ed@mail.gmail.com> <20041207202951.7913d5e5@localhost> <f2cf141b041208222253ed4064@mail.gmail.com> <20041209114756.GA4933@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:47:56 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On 2004-12-08 22:22, beowuff <beowuff@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:29:51 -0500, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org> wrote: > >>On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:21:44 -0800 beowuff <beowuff@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Found a small typo in the developers-handbook. > >>> > >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/tools-compiling.html > >>> > >>> Section 2.4 > >>> > >>> <snip> > >>> -llibrary > >>> > >>> Specify a function library to be used during when linking. > >>> > >>> </snip> > >> > >> This isn't a typo. > >> > >> You specify -l to inform cc(1) that you are working with a > >> library. It takes the form of -l<LIBRARY_NAME>. > > > > Shouldn't this be "Specify a function library to be used when linking." ? > > or "Specify a function library to be used during linking." ? > > > > Or am I being to nit picky? > > You're right. It just wasn't very clear from your original post what > the "typo" was. I plead guilty of missing it too, because I only gave a > quick glance at the text of the post. Some times, I think that reading > diff output for too long has damaged my reading skills! Very correct Mr. Keramidas, I missed it also since I figured the -llibrary was the typo in question. My bad. > > I've committed a fix for the nit. You're not picky :-) Fast, thank you! -- Tom Rhodes
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