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authorH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2013-05-08 16:16:35 +0200
committerRicardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>2013-05-09 11:20:41 -0400
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Spell-checking on meta-units
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@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
floating point numbers into strings. By default, Configure
sets this macro to use the first of gconvert, gcvt, or sprintf
- that pass sprintf-%g-like behaviour tests. If perl is using
+ that pass sprintf-%g-like behavior tests. If perl is using
long doubles, the macro uses the first of the following
functions that pass Configure's tests: qgcvt, sprintf (if
Configure knows how to make sprintf format long doubles--see
@@ -2246,9 +2246,9 @@ d_strctcpy (d_strctcpy.U):
structures.
d_strerrm (d_strerror.U):
- This variable holds what Strerrr is defined as to translate an error
+ This variable holds what Strerror is defined as to translate an error
code condition into an error message string. It could be 'strerror'
- or a more complex macro emulating strrror with sys_errlist[], or the
+ or a more complex macro emulating strerror with sys_errlist[], or the
"unknown" string when both strerror and sys_errlist are missing.
d_strerror (d_strerror.U):
@@ -2562,7 +2562,7 @@ direntrytype (i_dirent.U):
dlext (dlext.U):
This variable contains the extension that is to be used for the
- dynamically loaded modules that perl generaties.
+ dynamically loaded modules that perl generates.
dlsrc (dlsrc.U):
This variable contains the name of the dynamic loading file that
@@ -2599,9 +2599,7 @@ eagain (nblock_io.U):
ebcdic (ebcdic.U):
This variable conditionally defines EBCDIC if this
- system uses EBCDIC encoding. Among other things, this
- means that the character ranges are not contiguous.
- See trnl.U
+ system uses EBCDIC encoding.
echo (Loc.U):
This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
@@ -3419,7 +3417,7 @@ initialinstalllocation (bin.U):
When userelocatableinc is true, this variable holds the location
that make install should copy the perl binary to, with all the
run-time relocatable paths calculated from this at install time.
- When used, it is initialised to the original value of binexp, and
+ When used, it is initialized to the original value of binexp, and
then binexp is set to '.../', as the other binaries are found
relative to the perl binary.
@@ -3936,9 +3934,9 @@ myhostname (myhostname.U):
The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
myuname (Oldconfig.U):
- The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname. On Xenix,
- pseudo variables assignments in the output are stripped, thank you. The
- whole thing is then lower-cased.
+ The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname.
+ The whole thing is then lower-cased and slashes and single quotes are
+ removed.
n (n.U):
This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
@@ -4018,11 +4016,11 @@ nvEUformat (perlxvf.U):
a Perl NV using %E-ish floating point format.
nvfformat (perlxvf.U):
- This variable confains the format string used for printing
+ This variable contains the format string used for printing
a Perl NV using %f-ish floating point format.
nvFUformat (perlxvf.U):
- This variable confains the format string used for printing
+ This variable contains the format string used for printing
a Perl NV using %F-ish floating point format.
nvgformat (perlxvf.U):
@@ -4260,7 +4258,7 @@ procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
prototype (prototype.U):
This variable holds the eventual value of CAN_PROTOTYPE, which
- indicates the C compiler can handle funciton prototypes.
+ indicates the C compiler can handle function prototypes.
ptrsize (ptrsize.U):
This variable contains the value of the PTRSIZE symbol, which