[PATCH] readelf: Fix typo in --version-info documentation

[Dennis Dyall]

Sounds good, appreciate your work and, thanks for taking care of the line
issue.

All the best
Dennis

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:

> On 07.11.2025 16:53, Dennis Dyall via Binutils wrote:
> > From ec86e6f2bfae3b5b8b80af58429477b5201c1398 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Dennis Dyallo <dennis.dyall@yubico.com>
> > Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 16:46:17 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] readelf: Fix typo in --version-info documentation
> >
> > Change "it they exist" to "if they exist" in the description
> > of the --version-info option in the readelf man page.
>
> That change is certainly fine, but ...
>
> > --- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
> > +++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
> > @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ The @option{--output} option can be used to specify a
> > path to a
> >  directory into which archive members should be extracted.  If this
> >  option is not specified then the current directory will be used.
> >
> > -Note - although the presence of this option does imply a @option{x}
> > +Note - although the presence of this option does imply a @option{x}
>
> ... this and the other unrelated changes (likely intending to drop trailing
> blanks) came through damaged, resulting in no change at all while at the
> same time making the patch fail to apply. When committing for you, I'll
> shrink the change to ...
>
> > @@ -5303,7 +5303,7 @@ Displays the contents of the file's dynamic
> section,
> > if it has one.
> >  @item -V
> >  @itemx --version-info
> >  @cindex ELF version sections information
> > -Displays the contents of the version sections in the file, it they
> > +Displays the contents of the version sections in the file, if they
> >  exist.
> >
> >  @item -A
>
> ... just this hunk, while also taking care of the line wrapping issue
> (which, like the whitespace one, likely is a result of a configuration
> issue with your mailer).
>
> Jan
>


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