Changeset 7c263b6 for chapter08

Timestamp:

12/06/2022 05:33:02 PM (18 months ago)

Author:

David Bryant <davidbryant@…>

Branches:

11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, bdubbs/gcc13, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

ee65db4

Parents:

79ac947

Message:

Clean up capitalization. Improve English idiom. Use the present
perfect tense when appropriate. Replace "dlopening" with "opening
dynamically linked libraries" ... "dlopen" may be a Linux command,
but that doesn't make it a verb in English.

File:

• chapter08/libtool.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

chapter08/libtool.xml

@@ -25 +25 @@
 
     <para>The Libtool package contains the GNU generic library support script.
-    It wraps the complexity of using shared libraries in a consistent, portable
+    It makes the use of shared libraries simpler with a consistent, portable
     interface.</para>
 
@@ -55 +55 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make -k check</userinput></screen>
 
-    <note><para>The test time for libtool can be reduced significantly on a
+    <note><para>The test time for Libtool can be reduced significantly on a
     system with multiple cores.  To do this, append
     <command>TESTSUITEFLAGS=-j&lt;N&gt;</command> to the line above.  For
@@ -63 +63 @@
     <para>Five tests are known to fail in the LFS build environment due
     to a circular dependency, but these tests pass if rechecked after
-    automake is installed.  Additionally, with grep-3.8, two tests will
+    automake has been installed.  Additionally, with grep-3.8, two tests will
     trigger a warning for non-POSIX regular expressions and fail.</para>
 
@@ -124 +124 @@
         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libltdl</filename></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Hides the various difficulties of dlopening libraries</para>
+          <para>Hides the various difficulties of opening dynamically linked libraries</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-libtool libltdl">
             <primary sortas="c-libltdl">libltdl</primary>