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authorCarlos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com>2020-05-31 12:25:46 -0300
committerWaldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>2020-06-06 18:05:21 +0200
commitd946972e7e7c23b255971c3a183b6fabc2714816 (patch)
treeb2bcf0a78906594f812baf221c9424d8ab0c7029 /docs
parent0128fc7c80a7db5c63b1bf2c0511fdd334b357cd (diff)
docs: fix overwrite vs. override confusions
overwrite: "to write on or over; cover with writing" [1] override: "to take precedence over; preempt or supersede" [2] 1. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/overwrite 2. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/override Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/adding-packages-auto.txt2
-rw-r--r--docs/adding-packages-manual.txt2
-rw-r--r--docs/package-reference.txt10
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/adding-packages-auto.txt b/docs/adding-packages-auto.txt
index b84ce0a9f..4bfb2e439 100644
--- a/docs/adding-packages-auto.txt
+++ b/docs/adding-packages-auto.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ package buildtime dependencies (+PKG_BUILDDEP+), the package runtime
dependencies (+PKG_DEPENDS+), the package homepage (+PKG_URL+) and finally the
internet locations at which the tarball can be downloaded from (+PKG_SITES+).
Normally ${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz will be downloaded. You can
-overwrite the default via the +DISTFILES+ variable. You can add more then one
+override the default via the +DISTFILES+ variable. You can add more then one
archive name in +DISTFILES+ via space separated. If you have no source archive
at all, just use the boolean variable +NO_DISTFILES+ and set it to 1.
diff --git a/docs/adding-packages-manual.txt b/docs/adding-packages-manual.txt
index 862662987..768d3cdb6 100644
--- a/docs/adding-packages-manual.txt
+++ b/docs/adding-packages-manual.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ package buildtime dependencies (+PKG_BUILDDEP+), the package runtime
dependencies (+PKG_DEPENDS+), the package homepage (+PKG_URL+) and finally the
internet locations at which the tarball can be downloaded from (+PKG_SITES+).
Normally ${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz will be downloaded. You can
-overwrite the default via the +DISTFILES+ variable. You can add more then one
+override the default via the +DISTFILES+ variable. You can add more then one
archive name in +DISTFILES+ via space separated. If you have no source archive
at all, just use the boolean variable +NO_DISTFILES+ and set it to 1.
diff --git a/docs/package-reference.txt b/docs/package-reference.txt
index a57fbd033..0bd8d9ae3 100644
--- a/docs/package-reference.txt
+++ b/docs/package-reference.txt
@@ -112,15 +112,15 @@ different steps of the configure, build and install process.
* +INSTALL_STYLE+ either manual or auto
-* +CONFIGURE_PROG+ overwrite default configure programm
+* +CONFIGURE_PROG+ override default configure programm
-* +MAKE_FILE+ overwrite default Makefile
+* +MAKE_FILE+ override default Makefile
-* +ALL_TARGET+ overwrite default build target
+* +ALL_TARGET+ override default build target
-* +INSTALL_TARGET+ overwrite default install target
+* +INSTALL_TARGET+ override default install target
-The variables to add or overwrite preprocessor, compiler and linker flags:
+The variables to add or override preprocessor, compiler and linker flags:
* +TARGET_CPPFLAGS+ flags for the preprocessor