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-rw-r--r--doc/stdenv.xml2
-rw-r--r--maintainers/docs/cross.txt6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/build-support/fetchmtn/builder.sh2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/setup-hook.sh2
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/stdenv.xml b/doc/stdenv.xml
index 7bcbadd8ea9ab..f0cabe425a3d6 100644
--- a/doc/stdenv.xml
+++ b/doc/stdenv.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 
 <para>The standard build environment in the Nix Packages collection
-provides a environment for building Unix packages that does a lot of
+provides an environment for building Unix packages that does a lot of
 common build tasks automatically.  In fact, for Unix packages that use
 the standard <literal>./configure; make; make install</literal> build
 interface, you don’t need to write a build script at all; the standard
diff --git a/maintainers/docs/cross.txt b/maintainers/docs/cross.txt
index 32e09086b87e8..9c117774fc4b0 100644
--- a/maintainers/docs/cross.txt
+++ b/maintainers/docs/cross.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ NB:
 
 Keep in mind that many programs are not very well suited for cross
 compilation. Either they are not intended to run on other platforms,
-because the code is highly platform specific, or the configuration proces
+because the code is highly platform specific, or the configuration process
 is not written with cross compilation in mind.
 
 Nix will not solve these problems for you!
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ this compiler and verified to be working on a HP Jornada 820 running Linux
 are "patch", "make" and "wget".
 
 If we want to build C++ programs it gets a lot more difficult. GCC has a
-three step compilation proces. In the first step a simple compiler, called
+three step compilation process. In the first step a simple compiler, called
 xgcc, that can compile only C programs is built. With that compiler it
 compiles itself two more times: one time to build a full compiler, and another
 time to build a full compiler once again with the freshly built compiler from
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ with compilation flags. This is still work in progress for Nix.
 
 ---
 
-After succesfully completing the whole toolchain you can start building
+After successfully completing the whole toolchain you can start building
 packages with the newly built tools. To make everything build correctly
 you will need a stdenv for your target platform. Setting up this platform
 will take some effort. Right now there is a very experimental setup for
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchmtn/builder.sh b/pkgs/build-support/fetchmtn/builder.sh
index 4e34aad052b59..c1b0db895bc10 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/fetchmtn/builder.sh
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/fetchmtn/builder.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ for source in $dbs; do
 			echo "selector $selector does not match any revision";
 		fi
 	else
-		echo "pulling branch $branch wasn't succesfull";
+		echo "pulling branch $branch wasn't successful";
 	fi;
 	if test -n "$done"; then
 		break;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/setup-hook.sh
index f8e4f5e0fd64f..112dbe0c5136d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/setup-hook.sh
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/setup-hook.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ addXMLCatalogs () {
 if test -z "$libxmlHookDone"; then
     libxmlHookDone=1
 
-    # Set http_proxy and ftp_proxy to a invalid host to prevent
+    # Set http_proxy and ftp_proxy to an invalid host to prevent
     # xmllint and xsltproc from trying to download DTDs from the
     # network even when --nonet is not given.  That would be impure.
     # (Note that .invalid is a reserved domain guaranteed not to