[Gllug] Building a patch

[Christian Smith]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Jack Bertram wrote:

>* Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> [051206 10:45]:
>> should be no junk there in any case: you should write the change in
>> a pristine tree, and then test it in an emphemeral copy of that tree,
>                                          ^^^^^^^^^^
>> so only that copy gets the build-time junk.)
>
>This is a fabulous typo; I have visions of an emphysemal tree with
>shortness of breath, coughing, and lung disease brought on by inadequate
>sterilisation of the working environment.
>
>Keep your working trees clean!  (And your build-time trees epheremal, to
>be sure)


[csmith at erol ~]$ dict epheremal
No definitions found for "epheremal"
[csmith at erol ~]$ dict emphemeral
No definitions found for "emphemeral", perhaps you mean:
gcide:  Ephemeral
wn:  ephemeral
moby-thes:  ephemeral
[csmith at erol ~]$ dict ephemeral
...

Looks like you're both wrong:) The word appears to be ephemeral.
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