Re: [PATCH] Fixed -fvisbility=hidden typo in a comment

"Gary V. Vaughan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Vincent,

> On 17 Nov 2014, at 17:29, Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-11-17 16:01:18 +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>> Nice catch! I had no idea people scrutinized the comments so carefully :-)
> 
> It was actually reported by Kiyoshi KANAZAWA in the GNU MPFR list:
> 
>  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.mpfr.general/2246
> 
> BTW, some typos can be found by using "codespell".

Great tip, thanks, I wasn't aware of that tool.

> There are other
> ones in libtool, e.g. in NEWS:
> 
> NEWS:607: propogate  ==> propagate
> NEWS:1101: modeled  ==> modelled

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 :-(

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
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