@@ 537,9 537,9 @@ Thus, when installing MPC, the MPFR and GMP libraries also get installed
in the profile; removing MPC also removes MPFR and GMP---unless they had
also been explicitly installed independently.
-Besides, packages sometime rely on the definition of environment
+Besides, packages sometimes rely on the definition of environment
variables for their search paths (see explanation of
-@code{--search-paths} below.) Any missing or possibly incorrect
+@code{--search-paths} below). Any missing or possibly incorrect
environment variable definitions are reported here.
@c XXX: keep me up-to-date
@@ 1838,7 1838,7 @@ Binutils, libc, and the other packages mentioned above---the
@dfn{bootstrap binaries}.
These bootstrap binaries are ``taken for granted'', though we can also
-re-create them if needed (more on that later.)
+re-create them if needed (more on that later).
@unnumberedsubsec Preparing to Use the Bootstrap Binaries
@@ 1966,7 1966,7 @@ In practice, there may be some complications. First, it may be that the
extended GNU triplet that specifies an ABI (like the @code{eabi} suffix
above) is not recognized by all the GNU tools. Typically, glibc
recognizes some of these, whereas GCC uses an extra @code{--with-abi}
-configure flag (see @code{gcc.scm} for examples of how to handle this.)
+configure flag (see @code{gcc.scm} for examples of how to handle this).
Second, some of the required packages could fail to build for that
platform. Lastly, the generated binaries could be broken for some
reason.