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-rw-r--r--appendixa/glibc-desc.xml2
-rw-r--r--appendixa/makedev-desc.xml2
-rw-r--r--appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml2
-rw-r--r--chapter05/bzip2-exp.xml4
-rw-r--r--chapter05/kernel-exp.xml2
-rw-r--r--chapter06/chroot.xml2
-rw-r--r--chapter06/nettools.xml2
7 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml
index 8fa00acb2..bf91d87e5 100644
--- a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The Glibc package contains the GNU C Library.
<para>
The C Library is a collection of commonly used functions in programs.
-This way a programmer doens't need to create his own functions for every
+This way a programmer doesn't need to create his own functions for every
single task. The most common things like writing a string to the screen
are already present and at the disposal of the programmer.
</para>
diff --git a/appendixa/makedev-desc.xml b/appendixa/makedev-desc.xml
index 68fe6eb2c..541aeaa31 100644
--- a/appendixa/makedev-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/makedev-desc.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ The MAKEDEV package contains the MAKEDEV script.
<sect2><title>Description</title>
<para>
-MAKEDEV is a script that can help in creating the necesarry static
+MAKEDEV is a script that can help in creating the necessary static
device files that usually reside in the /dev directory.
</para>
diff --git a/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml b/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml
index e9299f52a..cfb3143de 100644
--- a/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ swapdev queries and sets swap device.
<title>tunelp</title>
<para>
-tunelp sets various paramters for the lp device.
+tunelp sets various parameters for the lp device.
</para>
</sect3>
diff --git a/chapter05/bzip2-exp.xml b/chapter05/bzip2-exp.xml
index d3b74f9a0..1eef298ec 100644
--- a/chapter05/bzip2-exp.xml
+++ b/chapter05/bzip2-exp.xml
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ and tell make with the -f parameter to read that alternate file.
<para>
<userinput>LDFLAGS=-static:</userinput> This is the second way we use to
link a package statically. This is also the most common way.
-The -all-static value is only used with the binutils package and
-won't be used throughout the rest of this book.
+The -all-static value is only used with the binutils and the gettext
+packages and won't be used throughout the rest of this book.
</para>
</sect2>
diff --git a/chapter05/kernel-exp.xml b/chapter05/kernel-exp.xml
index 8e5ca26ce..496cd6f7b 100644
--- a/chapter05/kernel-exp.xml
+++ b/chapter05/kernel-exp.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ answers "Y" to every question the config script asks the user. We're not
configuring the real kernel here, we just need to have some sort of
configure file created so that we can run make dep next that will create
a few files in $LFS/usr/src/linux/include/linux, like version.h, among
-others, that we will need to compilg Glibc and other packages later in
+others, that we will need to compile Glibc and other packages later in
chroot.
</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/chroot.xml b/chapter06/chroot.xml
index b5b9c13e8..cd385eacb 100644
--- a/chapter06/chroot.xml
+++ b/chapter06/chroot.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ like vim and less to operate properly.
Now that we are inside a chroot'ed environment, we can continue to
install all the basic system software. You have to make sure all the
following commands in this and following chapters are run from within the
-chroot'ed environment. If you ever leaves this environment for a reason
+chroot'ed environment. If you ever leave this environment for a reason
(say when rebooting or something) please remember to mount $LFS/proc
again like you just did and re-enter chroot before continuing with the
book.
diff --git a/chapter06/nettools.xml b/chapter06/nettools.xml
index 945114027..fb45eb059 100644
--- a/chapter06/nettools.xml
+++ b/chapter06/nettools.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
<para>
The <filename>Makefile</filename> file CFLAGS variable has to be edited
-if compiler optimzations should be added.
+if compiler optimizations should be added.
</para>
<para>