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authorSimon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>2014-05-31 09:26:20 +0100
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>2014-06-01 17:28:05 +0200
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manual: fix spelling mistakes
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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-rw-r--r--docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt2
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/adding-packages-luarocks.txt4
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/adding-packages-virtual.txt2
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/configure.txt6
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/make-tips.txt2
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt2
6 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
index 3cf3afaf41..f7352446c4 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBFOO
http://foosoftware.org/libfoo/
---------------------------
-The +bool+ line, +help+ line and other meta-informations about the
+The +bool+ line, +help+ line and other meta-information about the
configuration option must be indented with one tab. The help text
itself should be indented with one tab and two spaces, and it must
mention the upstream URL of the project.
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-luarocks.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-luarocks.txt
index 766a4fe2af..f307e4dca0 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-luarocks.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-luarocks.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ package to be built.
==== +luarocks-package+ reference
LuaRocks is a deployment and management system for Lua modules, and supports
-various +build.type+: +builtin+, +make+ and +cmake+. In the contetx of
+various +build.type+: +builtin+, +make+ and +cmake+. In the context of
Buildroot, the +luarocks-package+ infrastructure only supports the +builtin+
mode. LuaRocks packages that use the +make+ or +cmake+ build mechanisms
should instead be packaged using the +generic-package+ and +cmake-package+
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ infrastructures in Buildroot, respectively.
The main macro of the LuaRocks package infrastructure is +luarocks-package+:
like +generic-package+ it works by defining a number of variables providing
-meta informations about the package, and then calling +luarocks-package+. It
+meta information about the package, and then calling +luarocks-package+. It
is worth mentioning that building LuaRocks packages for the host is not
supported, so the macro +host-luarocks-package+ is not implemented.
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-virtual.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-virtual.txt
index 0cbe753682..6326bb5455 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-virtual.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-virtual.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ the provider used in the rootfs.
For example, 'OpenGL ES' is an API for 2D and 3D graphics on embedded systems.
The implementation of this API is different for the 'Allwinner Tech Sunxi' and
-the 'Texas Instruments OMAP35xx' plaftorms. So +libgles+ will be a virtual
+the 'Texas Instruments OMAP35xx' platforms. So +libgles+ will be a virtual
package and +sunxi-mali+ and +ti-gfx+ will be the providers.
==== +virtual-package+ tutorial
diff --git a/docs/manual/configure.txt b/docs/manual/configure.txt
index da4bdb092c..eb8cb1d7e0 100644
--- a/docs/manual/configure.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/configure.txt
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ different solutions to handle the +/dev+ directory :
* The first solution is *Static using device table*. This is the old
classical way of handling device files in Linux. With this method,
the device files are persistently stored in the root filesystem
- (i.e. they persist accross reboots), and there is nothing that will
+ (i.e. they persist across reboots), and there is nothing that will
automatically create and remove those device files when hardware
devices are added or removed from the system. Buildroot therefore
creates a standard set of device files using a _device table_, the
@@ -257,14 +257,14 @@ different solutions to handle the +/dev+ directory :
possible to use this option). When mounted in +/dev+, this virtual
filesystem will automatically make _device files_ appear and
disappear as hardware devices are added and removed from the
- system. This filesystem is not persistent accross reboots: it is
+ system. This filesystem is not persistent across reboots: it is
filled dynamically by the kernel. Using _devtmpfs_ requires the
following kernel configuration options to be enabled:
+CONFIG_DEVTMPFS+ and +CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT+. When Buildroot is in
charge of building the Linux kernel for your embedded device, it
makes sure that those two options are enabled. However, if you
build your Linux kernel outside of Buildroot, then it is your
- responsability to enable those two options (if you fail to do so,
+ responsibility to enable those two options (if you fail to do so,
your Buildroot system will not boot).
* The third solution is *Dynamic using mdev*. This method also relies
diff --git a/docs/manual/make-tips.txt b/docs/manual/make-tips.txt
index 9fabb6f742..281b628961 100644
--- a/docs/manual/make-tips.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/make-tips.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ The manual outputs will be generated in 'output/docs/manual'.
- A few tools are required to build the documentation (see:
xref:requirement-optional[]).
-.Reseting Buildroot for a new target:
+.Resetting Buildroot for a new target:
To delete all build products as well as the configuration:
diff --git a/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt b/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt
index e51e1a6ad1..2ecff35250 100644
--- a/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ any other version control system. To achieve this, Buildroot will use
_rsync_ to copy the source code of the component from the specified
+<pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR+ to +output/build/<package>-custom/+.
-This mechanism is best used in conjuction with the +make
+This mechanism is best used in conjunction with the +make
<pkg>-rebuild+ and +make <pkg>-reconfigure+ targets. A +make
<pkg>-rebuild all+ sequence will _rsync_ the source code from
+<pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR+ to +output/build/<package>-custom+ (thanks to
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