From 12c82b50732eb20659f09456b7ebd3ac7bbbb41f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Burgess Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:17:17 +0000 Subject: Fix several grammar mistakes and other typos. Thanks to Jim DeMarco for the report. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9191 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- prologue/architecture.xml | 11 +++++------ prologue/standards.xml | 18 +++++++++--------- prologue/why.xml | 9 ++++----- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/prologue/architecture.xml b/prologue/architecture.xml index a9160865f..3527d5956 100644 --- a/prologue/architecture.xml +++ b/prologue/architecture.xml @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ installation, Ubuntu, Red Hat/Fedora, SuSE, or other distribution that targets the architecture that you have. Also note that a 32-bit distribution can be installed and used as a host system on a 64-bit AMD/Intel computer. -Some other facts about a 64-bit systems need to be added here. When +Some other facts about 64-bit systems need to be added here. When compared to a 32-bit system, the sizes of executable programs are slightly larger and the execution speeds are only slightly faster. For example, in a test build of LFS-6.5 on a Core2Duo CPU based system, the following statistics @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ data that exceeds 4GB, the advantages of a 64-bit system are substantial. "multi-lib" system requires compiling many applications twice, once for a 32-bit system and once for a 64-bit system. This is not directly supported in LFS becuase it would interfere with the educational objective of providing the -instructions needed for a straight forward base Linux system. You can refer to +instructions needed for a straightforward base Linux system. You can refer to the Cross Linux From Scratch project for this advanced topic. @@ -51,11 +51,10 @@ project for this advanced topic. that cannot currently be built in a "pure" 64-bit system or require specialized build instructions. Generally, these packages have some embedded 32-bit specific assembly language instructions that fail when building on a 64-bit -system. This includes some Beyond Linux From Scratch -(BLFS) Xorg drivers. Many of these problems can -be worked around, but may require some specialized procedures or -patches. +(BLFS). Many of these problems can be worked around, but may require +some specialized procedures or patches. diff --git a/prologue/standards.xml b/prologue/standards.xml index da56719fd..e93c4c68b 100644 --- a/prologue/standards.xml +++ b/prologue/standards.xml @@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ there are also architecture specific requirements. LFS attempts to conform to the architectures discussed in the previous section. - Many people do not agree with the requirements of LSB. The - main purpose of defining it is to ensure that proprietary software will - be able to be installed and run properly on a compliant system. Since LFS - is source based, the user has complete control over what packages are - desired and many choose not to install some packages that are specified - by the LSB. + Many people do not agree with the requirements of the LSB. + The main purpose of defining it is to ensure that proprietary software + will be able to be installed and run properly on a compliant system. + Since LFS is source based, the user has complete control over what + packages are desired and many choose not to install some packages that + are specified by the LSB. @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Packages supplied by LFS needed to - satisfy LSB Requirements + satisfy the LSB Requirements @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Packages supplied by BLFS needed to - satisfy LSB Requirements + satisfy the LSB Requirements @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Packages not supplied by LFS or BLFS - needed to satisfy LSB Requirements + needed to satisfy the LSB Requirements diff --git a/prologue/why.xml b/prologue/why.xml index 99cca1ce9..6606eedf0 100644 --- a/prologue/why.xml +++ b/prologue/why.xml @@ -169,9 +169,8 @@ GMP - This package package contains math libraries and have - useful functions for arbitrary precision arithmetic. It - is required to build Gcc. + This package contains math libraries and have useful functions for + arbitrary precision arithmetic. It is required to build Gcc. @@ -319,7 +318,7 @@ Patch - This package a program for modifying or creating files by + This package contains a program for modifying or creating files by applying a patch file typically created by the diff program. It is needed by the build procedure for several LFS packages. @@ -389,7 +388,7 @@ Sysvinit This package provides the init - program which it the parent of all other processes on the Linux + program, which is the parent of all other processes on the Linux system. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf