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Re: [RFA] Spelling fixes in configure.in


Andrew,

I wasn't sure if spelling fixes fell under the new "obvious fix" rule. 
I've checked this in.

Thanks for looking at this.

Andrew Cagney wrote:

> David Smith wrote:
> 
>> Here's a minor patch that cleans up five spelling errors in configure.in.
>> Two would be seen by a user when configure is run (the other three are in
>> comments).  I've only included the patch to configure.in itself -- I'll
>> regenerate configure when I check this in.
>> 
>> OK to commit?
>> 
>> 2001-03-23  David Smith  <dsmith@redhat.com>
>> 
>>         * configure.in: Corrected spelling errors.
>>         * configure: Regenerated.
> 
> 
> Just FYI, spelling errors are mostly considered obvious fixes.  You just
> need to be careful with regional differences.  GDB's english is anything
> but U.S. centric.  Either ``correct'' or U.S. spelling are considered
> acceptable and should be left unchanged.  Once GDB is internationalized,
> people can start rationalizing it (changing everything to ``strine''
> :-).
> 
> 	Andrew

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