Typo in Developers Handbook

[Tom Rhodes]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:47:56 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:

> On 2004-12-08 22:22, beowuff <beowuff at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:29:51 -0500, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:21:44 -0800 beowuff <beowuff at 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