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Practical Development Environments

Errata for Practical Development Environments

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page 6.5
Types of Test Tools

Book: Practical Development Environments:
Section Title: Types of Test Tools

... the next section, Section 6.5.2) as well as memory checking, but PurifyPlus does require recompilation of the program. Other good commercial memory analyzers include TotalView (http://www.etnus.com),

should be www.totalviewtech.com/

 Anonymous  May 12, 2009 
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Page 9.2.3
[Safari version] Section 9.2.3, paragraph 8, first sentence

The symbol or word for "pi" is missing from the end of the sentence, "...with each
release adding the next digit from ."

Anonymous   
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Page 57
midway through the script

On recent Linux machines, this script throws an error. The line containing
sort +1

should be
sort -k 2

For more explanation on GNU sort, say:
info sort

 Anonymous   
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Page 83
Figure 5-1

The arrows between the build states Interrupted and Up-to-date, and also between
Clean and Up-to-date, should be double-headed arrows, not single-headed.

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 117
Sidebar "The History of SCons", paragraph 2, first sentence

From Greg Wilson:
> The Software Carpentry project that got SCons going was funded by
> Los Alamos National Laboratory, not Lawrence Livermore.
> (I oughta know I'm the guy who organized and ran it ;-).

Please replace "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory" with "Los Alamos National
Laboratory"

 Anonymous   
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Page 236
second word from top of page

manaually -> manually

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 259
4th paragraph (Link checking)

The W3C link checker is titled "checklint" rather than "checklink".

 Anonymous   
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Page 283
"Documentation Environments" section

The sentence describing the LaTeX book reads, "This book is also a good example of
how to describe using a documentation tool."

Better wording:

"This book is also a good template to use for writing other books about
documentation tools."

 Anonymous