diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
index 55c209c99e..d3ae6b8f87 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ PLIST_DIRS= lib/X11/oneko
But do not worry if you do not really understand what
bsd.port.mk is doing, not many people
- do... :->
+ do... :-)
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ PLIST_DIRS= lib/X11/oneko
The extract target is run.
It looks for your port's distribution file (typically a
- gzip'd tarball) in DISTDIR and unpacks
+ gzipped tarball) in DISTDIR and unpacks
it into a temporary subdirectory specified by
WRKDIR (defaults to
work).
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ DOS2UNIX_REGEX= .*\.(c|cpp|h)
The original source
Does it live in DISTDIR as a standard
- gzip'd tarball named something like
+ gzipped tarball named something like
foozolix-1.2.tar.gz? If so, you can go on
to the next step. If not, you should look at overriding any
of the DISTVERSION,
@@ -2443,7 +2443,7 @@ MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR= make
MASTER_SITES= SF
- If the guess is incorrect, it can be overriden as
+ If the guess is incorrect, it can be overridden as
follows.
MASTER_SITES= SF/stardict/WyabdcRealPeopleTTS/${PORTVERSION}
@@ -2635,7 +2635,7 @@ EXTRACT_ONLY= source.tar.gz
.gz or .Z.
If the patch is distributed with some other files, such
- as documentation, in a gzip'd tarball, you cannot just use
+ as documentation, in a gzipped tarball, you cannot just use
PATCHFILES. If that is the case, add the
name and the location of the patch tarball to
DISTFILES and
@@ -2650,7 +2650,7 @@ EXTRACT_ONLY= source.tar.gz
The tarball will have been extracted alongside the
regular source by then, so there is no need to explicitly
- extract it if it is a regular gzip'd or compress'd
+ extract it if it is a regular gzipped or compressed
tarball. If you do the latter, take extra care not to
overwrite something that already exists in that directory.
Also, do not forget to add a command to remove the copied
@@ -2671,8 +2671,7 @@ EXTRACT_ONLY= source.tar.gz
This section has information on the fetching mechanism
known as both MASTER_SITES:n and
MASTER_SITES_NN. We will refer to this
- mechanism as MASTER_SITES:n
- hereon.
+ mechanism as MASTER_SITES:n.
A little background first. OpenBSD has a neat feature
inside the DISTFILES and
@@ -3442,11 +3441,11 @@ ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES= yes
Dependencies
- Many ports depend on other ports. This is very convenient
- and nice feature of most Unix-like operating systems,
- including &os;. It allows not having to bundle common
- dependencies with every port or package, since a lot of ports
- would share them. There are seven variables that can be used
+ Many ports depend on other ports. This is a very
+ convenient feature of most Unix-like operating systems,
+ including &os;. Multiple ports can share a common dependency,
+ rather than bundling that dependency with every port or
+ package that needs it. There are seven variables that can be used
to ensure that all the required bits will be on the user's
machine. There are also some pre-supported dependency
variables for common cases, plus a few more to control the
@@ -4463,7 +4462,7 @@ PORTVERSION= 1.0
INSTALL_KLD is a command to
install kernel loadable modules. Some architectures
- don't like it when the modules are stripped, therefor
+ do not like having the modules stripped, so
use this command instead of
INSTALL_PROGRAM.
@@ -4516,12 +4515,12 @@ PORTVERSION= 1.0
Installing a whole tree of files
Sometimes, there is a need to install a big number of
- files, preserving their hierarchical organization, ie.
+ files, preserving their hierarchical organization, i.e.,
copying over a whole directory tree from
WRKSRC to a target directory under
PREFIX.
- Two macros exists for this situation. The advantage of
+ Two macros exist for this situation. The advantage of
using these macros instead of cp is that
they guarantee proper file ownership and permissions on
target files. The first macro,
@@ -5309,7 +5308,7 @@ IGNORE= may not be redistributed because of licensing reasons. Please visit AUTOMAKE_ARGS and
ACLOCAL_ARGS respectively, which may be
- overriden by the port Makefile if
+ overridden by the port Makefile if
required.
@@ -5840,9 +5839,9 @@ USE_XORG= x11 xpm
The list of possible categories is available on the
Freedesktop
- website. The StartupNotify
- indicates, if the application will clear the status in
- startup notification aware environment.
+ website. StartupNotify
+ indicates whether the application will clear the status in
+ a startup notification-aware environment.
Example:
@@ -6787,13 +6786,13 @@ QT_COMPONENTS= qmake_build moc_build rcc_build uic_build
APXS
Full path to the apxs
- binary. Can be overriden in your port.
+ binary. Can be overridden in your port.
HTTPD
Full path to the httpd
- binary. Can be overriden in your port.
+ binary. Can be overridden in your port.
@@ -6846,7 +6845,7 @@ QT_COMPONENTS= qmake_build moc_build rcc_build uic_build
SHORTMODNAME
Short name of the module. Automatically
derived from MODULENAME, but can
- be overriden. Example:
+ be overridden. Example:
hello
@@ -8259,8 +8258,8 @@ PLIST_SUB+= VERSION="${VER_STR}"
The following fragment is from a port which can use
Lua version
5.0 or 5.1, and uses
- 5.0 by default. It can be overriden by
- the user using WITH_LUA_VER.
+ 5.0 by default. It can be overridden
+ by the user with WITH_LUA_VER.
USE_LUA= 5.0-5.1
WANT_LUA_VER= 5.0
@@ -14207,7 +14206,7 @@ Reference: <http://www.freebsd.org/ports/portaudit/74a9541d-5d6c-11d8-80e3-00
March 18, 2009
8.0-CURRENT after the dynamic string token
substitution has been implemented for rpath and needed
- pathes.
+ paths.