On 22 February 2006 16:40, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> Hi Paolo,
>>
>> thanks for the patch. I just saw Joseph's okay, but I believe there
>> is one minor detail left.
>>
>> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>> +GNU Make 3.79 and above, which is necessary to build GCC, support
>>> +building in parallel.
>>>
>>
>> Specifically, in the sentence above we have "which is" (singular)
>> versus "support" (plural) which confused me a bit when first reading
>> the change.
>>
>> Joseph as a native speaker will be in a much better position to advise
>> whether to use singular or plural here, but I believe the two uses should
>> be in sync.
>>
> If rephrasing the sentence as
>
> GNU Make supports building in parallel starting from version 3.79, which
> is anyway necessary to build GCC.
>
> is ok, I'm pretty sure this is correct ("which" refers to "version").
>
> Paolo
Yep, I think the clearest way to rephrase it would be
GNU Make 3.79 (which is the minimum version required to build GCC) and above,
support building in parallel.
thereby removing the confusion between the requirement (singular) and the set
of versions that fulfill that requirement (plural).
cheers,
DaveK
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