From: <em...@bo...> - 2005-08-10 22:10:46
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I noticed a gramatical error in INSTALL (" and the your OS is supported.") and decided to run aspell on it. The patch (longer than I expected) follows. Some changes are not spelling like the change from "CMU CL" to CMUCL (for consistency with the rest of the file) and "OS's" to "operating systems". I hope they are not too controversial. Index: INSTALL =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/sbcl/sbcl/INSTALL,v retrieving revision 1.21 diff -u -r1.21 INSTALL --- INSTALL 11 Jul 2005 15:31:07 -0000 1.21 +++ INSTALL 10 Aug 2005 20:20:26 -0000 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ 1. BINARY DISTRIBUTION 1.1. Quick start - 1.2. Finding ancilliary files + 1.2. Finding ancillary files 1.3. Anatomy of SBCL 2. SOURCE DISTRIBUTION @@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ by the environment variable "INSTALL_ROOT". If you install SBCL from binary distribution in other location then - "/usr/local", see section 1.2, "Finding ancilliary files". + "/usr/local", see section 1.2, "Finding ancillary files". -1.2. Finding ancilliary files +1.2. Finding ancillary files The SBCL runtime needs to be able to find the ancillary files associated with it: the "sbcl.core" file, and the contrib modules. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ passed their tests. If you need to install by hand, see "install.sh" for details. - Documentation concists of a man-page, the SBCL Manual (in info, pdf + Documentation consists of a man-page, the SBCL Manual (in info, pdf and html formats), and a few additional text files. 2. SOURCE DISTRIBUTION @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ If you don't already have an SBCL binary installed as "sbcl" on your system, you'll need to tell make.sh what Lisp to use as the - cross-compilation host. For example, to use CMU CL (assuming has + cross-compilation host. For example, to use CMUCL (assuming has been installed under its default name "lisp") as the cross-compilation host: @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Other * Check that the host lisp you're building with is known to work - as an SBCL build host, and the your OS is supported. + as an SBCL build host, and that your OS is supported. * Try to do a build without loading any initialization files for the cross-compilation host (for example @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ All of the following platforms are supported in the sense of "should work", but some things like loading foreign object files may lag - behind on less-used OS's. + behind on less-used operating system. Supported toolchains: @@ -245,8 +245,9 @@ Tru64 X Darwin (Mac OS X) X - Some OS's are more equal then others: most of the development and - testing is done on x86 Linux and *BSD, PPC Linux and Mac OS X. + Some operating systems are more equal then others: most of the + development and testing is done on x86 Linux and *BSD, PPC Linux + and Mac OS X. If an underprivileged platform is important to you, you can help by eg. testing during the monthly freeze periods, and most -- Eduardo Muñoz | (prog () 10 (print "Hello world!") http://www.boundp.net/ | 20 (go 10)) |
From: Thiemo S. <th...@ne...> - 2005-08-10 22:56:01
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Eduardo Muñoz wrote: > > I noticed a gramatical error in INSTALL (" and the your OS > is supported.") and decided to run aspell on it. The patch > (longer than I expected) follows. > Some changes are not spelling like the change from "CMU CL" > to CMUCL (for consistency with the rest of the file) and > "OS's" to "operating systems". I hope they are not too > controversial. [snip] > @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ > Other > > * Check that the host lisp you're building with is known to work > - as an SBCL build host, and the your OS is supported. > + as an SBCL build host, and that your OS is supported. Is this a missing "OS" expansion? :-) Thiemo |
From: Nathan F. <fr...@cs...> - 2005-08-11 15:15:21
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:29:57PM +0200, Eduardo Mu=F1oz wrote: > I noticed a gramatical error in INSTALL (" and the your OS > is supported.") and decided to run aspell on it. The patch > (longer than I expected) follows. Thanks, applied in 0.9.3.43. --=20 Nathan | From Man's effeminate slackness it begins. --Paradise Lost The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony Number 9. --Erwin Dieterich |
From: Luis O. <lu...@gm...> - 2005-08-12 00:28:28
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Nathan Froyd <fr...@cs...> writes: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:29:57PM +0200, Eduardo Muñoz wrote: >> I noticed a gramatical error in INSTALL (" and the your OS >> is supported.") and decided to run aspell on it. The patch >> (longer than I expected) follows. > > Thanks, applied in 0.9.3.43. + Some operating systems are more equal then others: most of the + development and testing is done on x86 Linux and *BSD, PPC Linux + and Mac OS X. That should be "more equal _than_ others", btw. -- Luis Oliveira luismbo (@) gmail (.) com Equipa Portuguesa do Translation Project http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/po/registry.cgi?team=pt |
From: Nathan F. <fr...@cs...> - 2005-08-16 15:17:44
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:27:17AM +0100, Luis Oliveira wrote: > + Some operating systems are more equal then others: most of the > + development and testing is done on x86 Linux and *BSD, PPC Linux > + and Mac OS X. > > That should be "more equal _than_ others", btw. Thanks, fixed in sbcl 0.9.3.58. -- Nathan | From Man's effeminate slackness it begins. --Paradise Lost The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony Number 9. --Erwin Dieterich |