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             <td vAlign="top" noWrap align="left"><tt>--with-&lt;<i>library</i>&gt;</tt></td>
             <td vAlign="top" align="left">Build, stage, or install the specified library. This 
                changes the default from trying to build all possible libraries, to only 
-               building the speicfied libraries.</td>
+               building the specified libraries.</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
             <td vAlign="top" noWrap align="left"><tt>--with-python-root[=PYTHON_ROOT]</tt></td>