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Re: [RFA] Spelling fixes in configure.in
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Spelling fixes in configure.in
- From: David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:05:21 -0600
- CC: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <3ABB5F32.1060701@redhat.com> <3ABB737B.BF8C671@cygnus.com>
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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