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@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ built-in providers. Our [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraf
 
 If you wish to cross-compile Terraform for another architecture, you can set the `XC_OS` and `XC_ARCH` environment variables to values representing the target operating system and architecture before calling `make`. The output is placed in the `pkg` subdirectory tree both expanded in a directory representing the OS/architecture combination and as a ZIP archive.
 
-For example, to compile 64-bit Linux binaries on Mac OS X Linux, you can run:
+For example, to compile 64-bit Linux binaries on Mac OS X, you can run:
 
 ```sh
 $ XC_OS=linux XC_ARCH=amd64 make bin