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Re: [PATCH] Fixed -fvisbility=hidden typo in a comment
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [PATCH] Fixed -fvisbility=hidden typo in a comment |
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Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:52:23 -0700 |
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On 11/17/2014 10:58 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
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>> On 17 Nov 2014, at 17:29, Vincent Lefevre <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> On 2014-11-17 16:01:18 +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>>> Nice catch! I had no idea people scrutinized the comments so carefully :-)
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>> It was actually reported by Kiyoshi KANAZAWA in the GNU MPFR list:
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>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.mpfr.general/2246
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>> BTW, some typos can be found by using "codespell".
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> Great tip, thanks, I wasn't aware of that tool.
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>> There are other
>> ones in libtool, e.g. in NEWS:
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>> NEWS:607: propogate ==> propagate
>> NEWS:1101: modeled ==> modelled
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> The latter is a legitimate spelling (according to my British English
> dictionary at least),
> but unfortunately the NEWS file is checksummed to prevent changes after a
> release,
> so not easy to fix without tweaking the release process :-(
It's possible to update the expected checksum when intentionally
correcting old news entries. Since you are using gnulib's maint.mk,
look at the update-NEWS-hash target.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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