fix a few trivial documentation typos

diff --git a/README b/README
index c79fb7bd9f15b48576aa5d63913682460dfe6c4c..313a803b85bef700908d8b52f4862568142eb659 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Install as root via
 
 # make install
 
-Before, reporting any problems, please run the regression tests.
+Before reporting any problems, please run the regression tests.
 
 To enable the low-level tracing build the library as:
 

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3f91ce093a1d05fdce9addf6c1a2cf107145c79a..1defb5c5aabf142377a1f8c093f0e67351e09279 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([verbose-debug],
 
 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
 
-dnl   Uncomment "AC_DISABLE_SHARED" to make shared librraries not get
+dnl   Uncomment "AC_DISABLE_SHARED" to make shared libraries not get
 dnl   built by default.  You can also turn shared libs on and off from
 dnl   the command line with --enable-shared and --disable-shared.
 dnl AC_DISABLE_SHARED

diff --git a/whatsnew-2.1.txt b/whatsnew-2.1.txt
index d02c518dcd8c2cf3a997756c4c908854ef024193..ae69093fcf6161e5a026d73cd5b81cfe2549535f 100644 (file)
--- a/whatsnew-2.1.txt
+++ b/whatsnew-2.1.txt
@@ -385,6 +385,6 @@
 
 5. Testing
 
-  Libevent's test coverage level is more or less unchanged sine before:
+  Libevent's test coverage level is more or less unchanged since before:
   we still have over 80% line coverage in our tests on Linux and OSX.
   There are some under-tested modules, though: we need to fix those.