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typo in "man ld"

Bug #497923 reported by Dominique Pellé
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binutils (Ubuntu)
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Duane Hinnen

Bug Description

When doing "man ld", I see a typo: the word "explicitely" should be spelled "explicitly".

It's in the last paragraph of the the description of the option --no-gc-sections.

Tags: manpage
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Dominique Pellé (dominique-pelle) wrote :

I precise that I'm using Ubuntu-9.10 (Karmic Koala)

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

It is in there multiple times (correctly) but this is the incorrect bit:

           This option can be set when doing a partial link (enabled with
           option -r). In this case the root of symbols kept must be
           explicitely specified either by an --entry or --undefined option or
           by a "ENTRY" command in the linker script.

affects: ubuntu → binutils (Ubuntu)
Changed in binutils (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: added: manpage
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arky (arky) wrote :

Can please check if the typo exists in the new package in lucid

Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)
Changed in binutils (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → duanedesign (duanedesign)
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In , Duane Hinnen (duanedesign) wrote :

LP: #497923
When doing "man ld", I see a typo: the word "explicitely" should be spelled
"explicitly".

It's in the last paragraph of the description for option:
--gc-sections
--no-gc-sections

"This option can be set when doing a partial link (enabled with option -r). In
this case the root of symbols kept must be explicitely specified either by an
--entry or --undefined option or by a "ENTRY" command in the linker script."

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In , Duane Hinnen (duanedesign) wrote :

Created attachment 4633
patch to fix typo in ld manual page - binutils-2.20

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Duane Hinnen (duanedesign) wrote :

Confirmed typo was present in Lucid. Patch created and attached to upstream bug report.

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Changed in binutils:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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In , Cvs-commit (cvs-commit) wrote :

Subject: Bug 11330

CVSROOT: /cvs/src
Module name: src
Changes by: <email address hidden> 2010-02-27 23:00:43

Modified files:
 ld : ChangeLog ld.texinfo

Log message:
 Fix a typo in ld.texinfo.

 2010-02-27 H.J. Lu <email address hidden>

 PR ld/11330
 * ld.texinfo: Replace explicitely with explicitly.

Patches:
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/ld/ChangeLog.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.2116&r2=1.2117
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/ld/ld.texinfo.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.256&r2=1.257

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In , Hjl-tools (hjl-tools) wrote :

Fixed.

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Changed in binutils:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package binutils - 2.20.1-1ubuntu1

---------------
binutils (2.20.1-1ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Build binutils-static.

binutils (2.20.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * Don't set has_ifunc_symbols if the symbol comes from a shared library
    (backport from the trunk).
  * Don't include documentation files in the -cross packages.
    Closes: #571522. LP: #514509.
  * Fix typo in ld documentation. LP: #497923.
  * Add readelf --unwind support for ARM.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:11:53 +0100

Changed in binutils (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Changed in binutils:
importance: Unknown → Low
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