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Grammar fixes.

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Simon Perreault 24 years ago
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chapter05/binutils-exp.xml

@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ to the value -all-static causes binutils to be linked statically.
 </para>
 
 <para>
-<userinput>tooldir=$LFS/usr:</userinput> Normally the tooldir (the
+<userinput>tooldir=$LFS/usr:</userinput> Normally, the tooldir (the
 directory where the executables from binutils end up in) is set to
 $(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias) which expands into, for example, 
-/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu. Since we only build for our own system we don't
+/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu. Since we only build for our own system, we don't
 need this target specific directory in $LFS/usr. That setup would be used
-if the system is used to cross-compile (for example 
+if the system was used to cross-compile (for example 
 compiling a package on the Intel machine that generates code that can be
 executed on Apple PowerPC machines).
 </para>

+ 5 - 5
chapter05/bzip2-exp.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 <para>
 <userinput>sed: </userinput> The sed command here searches for the
-string "$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o" and replaced it by "$(CC) $(CFLAGS)
+string "$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o" and replaces it by "$(CC) $(CFLAGS)
 $(LDFLAGS) -o" in the Makefile file. We make that modification so it
 will be easier to link bzip2 statically.
 </para>
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ will be easier to link bzip2 statically.
 <para>
 <userinput>...Makefile | make -f -:</userinput> Makefile
 is the last parameter of the sed command which indicates the file to
-search and replace in. sed normally sends the modified file to stdout
-(standard output) which will be the console. With the construction we
-use, sed's output will be piped to the make program. Normally when make
-is started it tries to find a number of files like Makefile. But we have
+search and replace in. Sed normally sends the modified file to stdout
+(standard output), which will be the console. With the construction we
+use, sed's output will be piped to the make program. Normally, when make
+is started, it tries to find a number of files like Makefile. But we have
 modified the Makefile file so we don't want make to use it. The "-f -"
 parameter tells make to read it's input from another file, or from stdin
 (standard input) which the dash (-) implies. This is one way to do it.

+ 2 - 2
chapter05/gcc-exp.xml

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 <para>
 <userinput>--enable-languages=c,c++:</userinput> This only builds the C
 and C++ compilers and not the other available compilers as they are, on
-the average, not often used. If those other compilers are needed
-the --enable-languages parameter can be omitted..
+the average, not often used. If those other compilers are needed,
+the --enable-languages parameter can be omitted.
 </para>
 
 <para>

+ 1 - 1
chapter05/gzip-inst.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <title>Installation of Gzip</title>
 
 <para>
-Before Gzip is installed the the gzip patch file needs to be unpacked.
+Before Gzip is installed, the gzip patch file needs to be unpacked.
 </para>
 
 <blockquote><literallayout>

+ 7 - 7
chapter05/installasroot.xml

@@ -2,19 +2,19 @@
 <title>Install all software as user root</title>
 
 <para>
-It's best if the user logins as root or su's to root when installing these
-files. That way he is assured that all files are owned by user root,
-group root (and not owned by the userid of the non-root user) and if a
-package wants to set special permissions it can do so without problems
+It's best if the user logs in as root or su's to root when installing these
+files. That way he is assured that all files are owned by user and
+group root (and not owned by the userid of the non-root user), and if a
+package wants to set special permissions, it can do so without problems
 due to non-root access.
 </para>
 
 <para>
-The documentation that comes with Glibc, Gcc and other
+The documentation that comes with Glibc, Gcc, and other
 packages recommend not to compile the packages as user root. We
 feel it's safe to ignore that recommendation and compile as user root
-anyways. Hundreds of people using LFS have done so without any problems
-whatsoever and we haven't encountered any bugs in the compile processes
+anyway. Hundreds of people using LFS have done so without any problems
+whatsoever, and we haven't encountered any bugs in the compile processes
 that cause harm. So it's pretty safe (never can be 100% safe though, so
 it's up to the user what he ends up doing).
 </para>

+ 3 - 3
chapter05/introduction.xml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ that the LFS system can be booted.
 
 <para>
 The software in this chapter will be linked statically. These programs
-will be re-installed in the next chapter and linked dynamically. The
+will be reinstalled in the next chapter and linked dynamically. The
 reason for the static version first is that there is a chance that our
 normal Linux system and the LFS system aren't using the same C
 Library versions. If the programs in the first part are linked against
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ packages will be, as previously explained, linked statically.
 </para>
 
 <para>
-During the installation of various packages the user will most likely see
+During the installation of various packages, the user will most likely see
 compiler warnings scrolling by on the screen. These are normal and can
 be safely ignored. They are just that, warnings (mostly about improper
-use of the C or C++ syntax, but not illegal use. It's just that often C
+use of the C or C++ syntax, but not illegal use. It's just that, often, C
 standards changed and packages still use the old standard which is not a
 problem).
 </para>

+ 2 - 2
chapter05/kernel-exp.xml

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 answers "Y" to every question the config script asks the user. We're not
 configuring the real kernel here, we just need to have some sort of
 configure file created so that we can run make dep next that will create
-a few files in $LFS/usr/src/linux/include/linux like version.h among
-others that we will need to compilg Glibc and other packages later in
+a few files in $LFS/usr/src/linux/include/linux, like version.h, among
+others, that we will need to compilg Glibc and other packages later in
 chroot.
 </para>