Fix typos in comments and messages, whitespace

git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/trunk@3726 9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8

3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/buildtools/configure.pl b/buildtools/configure.pl
index 4e6ff21a..4eeb97de 100755
--- a/buildtools/configure.pl
+++ b/buildtools/configure.pl
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ sub flow($) {
     my ($unflowed) = @_;
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Return the text $unflowed, split with newlines into 72 character lines.
-#  We assum $unflowed is pure text, without any kind of formatting characters
+#  We assume $unflowed is pure text, without any kind of formatting characters
 #  such as newlines.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
     my $retval;
diff --git a/buildtools/installnetpbm.pl b/buildtools/installnetpbm.pl
index d29fda1a..0c3679f8 100755
--- a/buildtools/installnetpbm.pl
+++ b/buildtools/installnetpbm.pl
@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ sub installHeader($$$) {
         my $rc = system("cd $hdrDir; ln -s netpbm/* .");
 
         if ($rc != 0) {
-            print("Failed to create backward compatibilty symlinks from " .
+            print("Failed to create backward compatibility symlinks from " .
                   "$hdrDir into $hdrDir/netpbm\n");
             print("ln exit code is $rc\n");
         } else {
diff --git a/buildtools/makeman b/buildtools/makeman
index dc8e45ce..196dbd0a 100755
--- a/buildtools/makeman
+++ b/buildtools/makeman
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ def makeman(name, file, indoc):
     indoc = re.sub(r"\s*\.sp", "\n.sp", indoc)
     # Format email addresses as italic
     indoc = re.sub('(?i)<A[ \n]+HREF="mailto:[^>]+">([^<]+)</A>', r'\\fI\1\\fP', indoc)    
-    # Format manual crossreferences
+    # Format manual cross-references
     def xrefmatch(match):
         xrefto = match.group(2)
         xrefurl = match.group(1)
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ def main(args, mainout=sys.stdout, mainerr=sys.stderr):
         elif switch == '-v':	# Enable verbose error reporting
             verbosity += 1
     try:
-        # First pass: gather locations for crossreferences:
+        # First pass: gather locations for cross-references:
         sectmap = {}
         for file in arguments:
             try: