Codespell report for "GNU Make" (on fossies.org)

[Fossies Administrator]

Hi "make"-makers,

this not very important report about a few spelling and typing errors in 
"GNU Make" probably comes too late for the upcoming release, but 
nevertheless I would like to give some according information:

The FOSS server fossies.org - supporting also the "GNU Make" project 
(https://fossies.org/linux/make) - offers among others also a feature 
named "Source code misspelling reports" 
(https://fossies.org/features.html#codespell).

Such reports are normally only generated on request, but as Fossies 
administrator I have just set up for testing purposes such a "codespell" 
(https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell) based analysis for the 
"GNU Make" Git "master" version:

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/make-master.tar.gz/codespell.html

That version-independent URL should redirect always to the report for the 
latest "master" version identified by the short Git commit ID and a 
year-month-day string (YYMMDD) representing the according git pull date 
(mostly = commit date).

The data are residing within a special restricted "test" folder that isn't 
really integrated into the standard Fossies services and should also not 
be accessible to search engines. The report should be available at least 
for some weeks and is continuously updated (currently even with a 
half-hourly refresh rate, later probably less often).

By the way, the context type of the spelling errors and typos are marked 
by a single character (within the sortable column "T"): The less 
interesting, probably not user visible ones (in "comments") are greyed, 
while the probably more interesting ones are black-colored. Especially 
interesting may be unassigned errors marked by a "?" since they may be 
contained in the source code itself. Some more according information is 
offered by a tooltip if the mouse is over the string "error context type 
character" above the table, over the "T" in the table header or over such 
a context character itself within the table. If JavaScript is enabled all 
table columns are sortable.

Although after a first review some obviously wrong matches ("False 
Positives" = FPs) are already filtered out (ignored) please inform me if 
you find more of them so that I can exclude them if applicable. And yes, 
most of the found errors are contained only in code comments and are not 
user visible.

Just for information there are also three supplemental pages showing some

 used "codespell" configuration details
  (https://fossies.org/linux/test/make-master.tar.gz/codespell_conf.html),
 all obvious false positives
  (https://fossies.org/linux/test/make-master.tar.gz/codespell_fps.html)
 and a misspelling history log
  (https://fossies.org/linux/test/make-master.tar.gz/codespell_hist.html).

OK, spelling corrections certainly have a low priority, but they may also 
contribute to the overall quality of a software project. So I hope that 
the report can nevertheless be a little bit useful.

Regards

Jens

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