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>Index: chapter.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.125
>diff -u -r1.125 chapter.sgml
>--- chapter.sgml	2002/05/22 04:37:41	1.125
>+++ chapter.sgml	2002/06/04 03:05:47
>@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@
>     </sect2>
> 
>     <sect2>
>-      <title>Update the files of <filename>/etc</filename></title>
>+      <title>Update the files in <filename>/etc</filename></title>
> 
>       <para>The <filename>/etc</filename> directory contains a large part
> 	of your system's configuration information, as well as scripts
>@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@
> 	files, determining how they differ with your existing files.</para>
>     
>       <para>Note that some of the files that will have been installed in
>-	<filename>/var/tmp/root</filename> have a leading <quote/./.  At the
>+	<filename>/var/tmp/root</filename> have a leading <quote>.</quote>.  At the
> 	time of writing the only files like this are shell startup files in
> 	<filename>/var/tmp/root/</filename> and
> 	<filename>/var/tmp/root/root/</filename>, although there may be others
>@@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@
> 	    <para>At the end of the day, it is your call.  You might be happy
> 	      re-making the world every fortnight say, and let changes
> 	      accumulate over that fortnight.  Or you might want to re-make
>-	      just those things that have changed, and are confident you can
>+	      just those things that have changed, and be confident you can
> 	      spot all the dependencies.</para>
>       
> 	    <para>And, of course, this all depends on how often you want to
>@@ -1495,14 +1495,14 @@
>       
> 	    <para><filename>/usr/obj</filename> contains all the object files
> 	      that were produced during the compilation phase.  Normally, one
>-	      of the first steps in the <quote/make world/ process is to
>+	      of the first steps in the <quote>make world</quote> process is to
> 	      remove this directory and start afresh.  In this case, keeping
> 	      <filename>/usr/obj</filename> around after you have finished
> 	      makes little sense, and will free up a large chunk of disk space
> 	      (currently about 340MB).</para>
>       
> 	    <para>However, if you know what you are doing you can have
>-	      <quote/make world/ skip this step.  This will make subsequent
>+	      <quote>make world</quote> skip this step.  This will make subsequent
> 	      builds run much faster, since most of sources will not need to
> 	      be recompiled.  The flip side of this is that subtle dependency
> 	      problems can creep in, causing your build to fail in odd ways.
>@@ -1511,8 +1511,8 @@
> 	      realising that it is because they have tried to cut
> 	      corners.</para>
>       
>-	    <para>If you want to live dangerously then make the world, passing
>-	      the <makevar>NOCLEAN</makevar> definition to <command>make</command>, like
>+	    <para>If you want to live dangerously then <command>make</command> the world, passing
>+	      the <makevar>NOCLEAN</makevar> option to the <command>make</command>, like
> 	      this:</para>
> 
> 	    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>make -DNOCLEAN world</userinput></screen>
>@@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@
> 	      </listitem>
> 	      
> 	      <listitem>
>-		<para>Pass the <option>-j&lt;n&gt;</option> option to make to
>+		<para>Pass the <option>-j&lt;n&gt;</option> option to &man.make.1; to
> 		  run multiple processes in parallel.  This usually helps 
> 		  regardless of whether you have a single or a multi processor
> 		  machine.</para>

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