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authorAdriano Carvalho <[email protected]>2025-08-25 23:32:28 +0100
committerHeinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>2025-08-30 20:45:33 +0200
commit6a006c56ee80ed0ad3fc8a35d96f1a184fbed53e (patch)
tree0e7d1f1235b4e59e88b4d3dee271347dd54aeb91 /doc/build
parent6deac6147bdba45e4bb74b608e301cb18a708b79 (diff)
doc: Fix obvious typos and minor improvements
These are fixes to what looks like obvious typos. Some minor improvments are also included, such as: - Write "symbolic link" instead of symlink - Correct capitalization for LLVM (all caps) - Remove dead link and surrounding sentence Signed-off-by: Adriano Carvalho <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/build')
-rw-r--r--doc/build/clang.rst8
-rw-r--r--doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst2
-rw-r--r--doc/build/tools.rst9
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/build/clang.rst b/doc/build/clang.rst
index 09bb988e923..a83ecb4fdc6 100644
--- a/doc/build/clang.rst
+++ b/doc/build/clang.rst
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ It can also be used to compile sandbox:
FreeBSD 11
----------
-Since llvm 3.4 is currently in the base system, the integrated assembler as
-is incapable of building U-Boot. Therefore gas from devel/arm-gnueabi-binutils
-is used instead. It needs a symlink to be picked up correctly though:
+Since LLVM 3.4 is currently in the base system, the integrated assembler is
+incapable of building U-Boot. Therefore gas from devel/arm-gnueabi-binutils is
+used instead. It needs a symbolic link to be picked up correctly though:
.. code-block:: bash
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ The following commands compile U-Boot using the Clang xdev toolchain.
gmake rpi_2_defconfig
gmake CC="clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi --sysroot /usr/arm-freebsd" -j8
-Given that U-Boot will default to gcc, above commands can be
+Given that U-Boot will default to gcc, the commands above can be
simplified with a simple wrapper script - saved as
/usr/local/bin/arm-gnueabi-freebsd-gcc - listed below:
diff --git a/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst b/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst
index d503764f9e3..5eb9e4ccb0a 100644
--- a/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst
+++ b/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ course) to have an up-to-date database.
The database will be in the root of the repository. No further modifications are
needed for it to be usable by the LSP, unless you set a name for the database
-other than it's default one (compile_commands.json).
+other than the default one (compile_commands.json).
Compatible IDEs
---------------
diff --git a/doc/build/tools.rst b/doc/build/tools.rst
index 5bfa05b2325..1cc8eb93230 100644
--- a/doc/build/tools.rst
+++ b/doc/build/tools.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Building tools for Linux
------------------------
To allow distributions to distribute all possible tools in a generic way,
-avoiding the need of specific tools building for each machine, a tools only
+avoiding the need of specific building tools for each machine, a tools-only
defconfig file is provided.
Using this, we can build the tools by doing::
@@ -30,9 +30,8 @@ installed all required packages below in order to build these host tools::
* diffutils (3.7)
* openssl-devel (1.1.1.d)
-Note the version numbers in these parentheses above are the package versions
-at the time being when writing this document. The MSYS2 installer tested is
-http://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20190524.exe.
+Note that the version numbers in parentheses above are the package versions at
+the time of writing this document.
There are 3 MSYS subsystems installed: MSYS2, MinGW32 and MinGW64. Each
subsystem provides an environment to build Windows applications. The MSYS2
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ Launch the MSYS2 shell of the MSYS2 environment, and do the following::
Building without Python
-----------------------
-The tools-only builds bytes pylibfdt by default. To disable this, use the
+The tools-only builds pylibfdt by default. To disable this, use the
NO_PYTHON variable::
NO_PYTHON=1 make tools-only_defconfig tools-only