Typo in Developers Handbook

beowuff beowuff at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 06:22:29 UTC 2004


On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:29:51 -0500, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:21:44 -0800
> 
> 
> beowuff <beowuff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Found a small typo in the developers-handbook.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/tools-compiling.html
> >
> > Section 2.4
> >
> > <snip>
> > -llibrary
> >
> >     Specify a function library to be used during when linking.
> >
> > </snip>
> 
> This isn't a typo.
> 
> You specify -l to inform cc(1) that you are working with a
> library.  It takes the form of -l<LIBRARY_NAME>.

Shouldn't this be "Specify a function library to be used when linking." ?
or "Specify a function library to be used during linking." ?

Or am I being to nit picky?



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