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

Eric Blake <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.patches
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/17/2014 10:58 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 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 :-(

It's possible to update the expected checksum when intentionally
correcting old news entries.  Since you are using gnulib's maint.mk,
look at the update-NEWS-hash target.

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