- typos: s/compatability/compatibility/g;s/compatable/compatible/g;

diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index e7207d0ebc420b5d36455f82565b4acd1d951b17..f118923c5313115a9a4043d53df9baa270209d1e 100644 (file)
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ config CONFIG_DEBUG_YANK_SUSv2
        bool "Disable obsolete features removed before SUSv3?"
        default y
        help
-         This option will disable backwards compatability with SuSv2,
+         This option will disable backwards compatibility with SuSv2,
          specifically, old-style numeric options ('command -1 <file>')
          will not be supported in head, tail, and fold.  (Note: should
          yank from renice too.)

diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in
index 7810c354d5649aef2a6fa0cd57cb15da0459c57d..e3f6239f21cebee9b39be56ba80ee4d9f564b68a 100644 (file)
--- a/archival/Config.in
+++ b/archival/Config.in
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_COMPRESS
          If you enable this option tar will be able to call uncompress,
          when extracting .tar.Z archives.
 
-config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY
+config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY
        bool "  Enable support for old tar header format"
        default N
        depends on CONFIG_TAR

diff --git a/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c b/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
index 682179a02d34c2a76502fc9a7173bfc195b16b4d..cd38f4560e54e9b5d8e4bf57622a7b02a02dcc8b 100644 (file)
--- a/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
+++ b/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ char get_header_tar(archive_handle_t *archive_handle)
         * 0's are for the old tar format
         */
        if (strncmp(tar.formated.magic, "ustar", 5) != 0) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY
+#ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY
                if (strncmp(tar.formated.magic, "\0\0\0\0\0", 5) != 0)
 #endif
                        bb_error_msg_and_die("Invalid tar magic");
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ char get_header_tar(archive_handle_t *archive_handle)
                /* Reserved for high performance files, treat as normal file */
        case 0:
        case '0':
-#ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY
+#ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY
                if (last_char_is(file_header->name, '/')) {
                        file_header->mode |= S_IFDIR;
                } else

diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index ab4d1f26626e29b3ed1377c1d50a443310839ff2..9d0a7c5e4e1b0875c1fe25e333b31f358d055717 100644 (file)
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 /* Tar file constants  */
 # define TAR_MAGIC          "ustar"    /* ustar and a null */
-# define TAR_VERSION        "  "       /* Be compatable with GNU tar format */
+# define TAR_VERSION        "  "       /* Be compatible with GNU tar format */
 
 #define TAR_BLOCK_SIZE         512
 #define TAR_MAGIC_LEN          6

diff --git a/coreutils/cp.c b/coreutils/cp.c
index 87f2291966d8fc94b6c30146a7aa84212f764637..f5baa0d6239fba754a259a8eb68564cfcc1d0cf2 100644 (file)
--- a/coreutils/cp.c
+++ b/coreutils/cp.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ int cp_main(int argc, char **argv)
        }
        if (flags & 64) {
                /* Make -r a synonym for -R,
-                * -r was marked as obsolete in SUSv3, but is included for compatability
+                * -r was marked as obsolete in SUSv3, but is included for compatibility
                 */
                flags |= FILEUTILS_RECUR;
        }

diff --git a/coreutils/install.c b/coreutils/install.c
index e8dd5060c7e81cb8064747292d08c274693fe31f..7739fb61537d1e19f7899b43daf027ae69d37d1a 100644 (file)
--- a/coreutils/install.c
+++ b/coreutils/install.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int install_main(int argc, char **argv)
 
        bb_applet_long_options = install_long_options;
        bb_opt_complementally = "?:s--d:d--s";
-       /* -c exists for backwards compatability, its needed */
+       /* -c exists for backwards compatibility, its needed */
        flags = bb_getopt_ulflags(argc, argv, "cdpsg:m:o:", &gid_str, &mode_str, &uid_str);     /* 'a' must be 2nd */
 
        /* preserve access and modification time, this is GNU behaviour, BSD only preserves modification time */

diff --git a/include/libbb.h b/include/libbb.h
index 0ec332b30122e162e19fb5aca89790948dd64c73..f444084b3b4b8152cbcf8511881b4ab296ed9e80 100644 (file)
--- a/include/libbb.h
+++ b/include/libbb.h
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ extern int vdprintf(int d, const char *format, va_list ap);
 int nfsmount(const char *spec, const char *node, int *flags,
             char **mount_opts, int running_bg);
 
-/* Include our own copy of struct sysinfo to avoid binary compatability
+/* Include our own copy of struct sysinfo to avoid binary compatibility
  * problems with Linux 2.4, which changed things.  Grumble, grumble. */
 struct sysinfo {
        long uptime;                    /* Seconds since boot */

diff --git a/include/usage.h b/include/usage.h
index c8984e99b17c0bf417dfdabf7809f27b5c467417..0ac0284cef6cf0e597477842103b25c2dfea2573 100644 (file)
--- a/include/usage.h
+++ b/include/usage.h
@@ -2743,7 +2743,7 @@
        USAGE_SORT_BIG("\t-s\tstable (don't sort ties alphabetically)\n") \
        "\t-u\tsuppress duplicate lines" \
        USAGE_SORT_BIG("\n\t-z\tinput terminated by nulls, not newlines\n") \
-       USAGE_SORT_BIG("\t-mST\tignored for GNU compatability") \
+       USAGE_SORT_BIG("\t-mST\tignored for GNU compatibility") \
        ""
 #define sort_example_usage \
        "$ echo -e \"e\\nf\\nb\\nd\\nc\\na\" | sort\n" \