Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:47:56 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: beowuff <beowuff@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Typo in Developers Handbook Message-ID: <20041209114756.GA4933@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <f2cf141b041208222253ed4064@mail.gmail.com> References: <f2cf141b04120717215c63b0ed@mail.gmail.com> <20041207202951.7913d5e5@localhost> <f2cf141b041208222253ed4064@mail.gmail.com>
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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! I've committed a fix for the nit. You're not picky :-) Thanks, - Giorgos
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