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Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:51:49 -0500 |
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--- a/www/news.html Fri Mar 18 23:20:13 2011 -0500 +++ b/www/news.html Tue Mar 22 06:51:49 2011 -0500 @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ <li>build-control-images.sh - build all control images from sources/native-builds.</li> -<li>for-each-target.sh - iterage through every defined target architecture +<li>for-each-target.sh - iterate through every defined target architecture and run a command.</li> </ul> @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ <p>Environment variable sanitization: the sanitize_environment function unsets any environment variable it doesn't recognize, either from a whitelist or from config. Clearing all unrecognized environment variables insulates -the build from some of the strage environments out there. To disable this +the build from some of the strange environments out there. To disable this behavior, export NO_SANITIZE_ENVIRONMENT=1.</p> <p>New config variables:</p> @@ -585,13 +585,13 @@ of one of the unstable packages (linux, uClibc, or busybox). It can test that the build completes, or that the system image boots and successfully builds the static native dropbear binary. (In theory this will allow the -nightly snapshots to automaticaly isolate and report the first commit that +nightly snapshots to automatically isolate and report the first commit that broke them.)</p> <p>In other general infrastructure news: some extensive upgrades to the compiler wrapper (ccwrap), such as no longer needing GIMME_AN_S at compile time and instead autodetecting the presence of libgcc_s.so vs libgcc.a -and behaving appropriately. A largeish cleanup/refactoring of the compiler +and behaving appropriately. A largish cleanup/refactoring of the compiler build (described in <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/944>commit 944</a>) added a new "native-compiler.sh" script, which handles building the @@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ use the right one, rather than moving them around during the build. Updated smoketest-all.sh to show "NONE" for system images that didn't build. Added more support for SKIP_STRIP and CFLAGS=-g to the rest of the -packages. Cleaned out the old USE_COLOR stuff which was superceded by +packages. Cleaned out the old USE_COLOR stuff which was superseded by set_titlebar.</p> </li> </ul> @@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ tracker</a> has a <a href=http://redmine.impactlinux.com/projects/impact/roadmap>roadmap</a> showing what we plan to implement for the next release or two.</p> -<p>It's also a place to file bugs, athough sending them to the <a href=http://lists.impactlinux.com/listinfo.cgi/firmware-impactlinux.com>mailing list</a> +<p>It's also a place to file bugs, although sending them to the <a href=http://lists.impactlinux.com/listinfo.cgi/firmware-impactlinux.com>mailing list</a> is still the fastest way to get a fix.</p> </blockquote> @@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@ <a href=http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.1>the last GPLv2 release of Red Hat's binutils fork, 2.17.5.0.17</a> is under consideration for a future release. But mostly the GNU compiler toolchain -has been upgraded as far as possible for the forseeable future, either because +has been upgraded as far as possible for the foreseeable future, either because new versions provide no significant benefits or because they're not available under a license compatible with the Linux kernel's.</p> @@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ stripping of the cross compilers and system images, so everything's a bit smaller. The mirror list now lives in download.sh. New buildall.sh is a wrapper around build.sh. New build-static-toolchains.sh builds them under -qemu; set FORK=1 to build them in paralell just like buildall.sh. The +qemu; set FORK=1 to build them in parallel just like buildall.sh. The ext2 system images are now built at a small size with genext2fs and then expanded with resize2fs (because genext2fs slows down exponentially as size increases; this means e2fsprogs is built in host-tools.sh now).