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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-11-04 22:45:17 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-11-04 22:45:17 +0000
commit9eee06f70b451bbcc470c5b558beda97b23e0269 (patch)
treec2d1a9b52c5d792177d6bab21c5e0b588892a1f7
parentf4116d459e64997723cd630bca8605344dea0f42 (diff)
Merge module-init-tools testsuite fixes (r7118, r7120 and r7121) to the 6.1.1 branch
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/6.1.1/BOOK@7122 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml4
-rw-r--r--chapter03/packages.xml7
-rw-r--r--chapter06/module-init-tools.xml14
-rw-r--r--general.ent4
4 files changed, 24 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 8b32ae9f8..d3640cc56 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
+<listitem><para>November 4, 2005 [matt]: Correct the instructions for running
+Module-Init-Tools' testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar
+Teredesai and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>October 29, 2005 [manuel]: PDF fixes.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>October 23, 2005 [manuel]: Added Bash documentation
diff --git a/chapter03/packages.xml b/chapter03/packages.xml
index 3b5789ac7..c4c99eec5 100644
--- a/chapter03/packages.xml
+++ b/chapter03/packages.xml
@@ -298,6 +298,13 @@ url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html#ftp"/>.</para></note>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+<term>Module-Init-Tools-Testsuite (&module-init-tools-version;) - 34 KB:</term>
+<listitem>
+<para><ulink url="&kernel;linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/"/></para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
<term>Ncurses (&ncurses-version;) - 1,556 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/"/></para>
diff --git a/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml b/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
index dc0ee58c6..699f1a85b 100644
--- a/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
+++ b/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,17 @@ installed in LFS. Run the following command to avoid this:</para>
<screen><userinput>touch modprobe.conf.5</userinput></screen>
+<para>If you wish to run the test suite for Module-Init-Tools, you will need to
+download the separate testsuite tarball. Issue the following commands to
+perform the tests (note that the <command>make distclean</command> command is
+required to clean up the source tree, as the source gets recompiled as part of
+the testing process):</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>tar -xvf ../module-init-tools-testsuite-&module-init-tools-version;.tar.bz2 &amp;&amp;
+./configure &amp;&amp;
+make check &amp;&amp;
+make distclean</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Module-Init-Tools for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix="" --enable-zlib</userinput></screen>
@@ -54,9 +65,6 @@ kernel modules.</para></listitem>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-<para>To test the results, issue:
-<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
-
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index d458e2145..6bc1508ea 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "TESTING-20051031">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "October 31, 2005">
+<!ENTITY version "TESTING-20051104">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "November 4, 2005">
<!ENTITY milestone "6.1.1">
<!ENTITY generic-version "testing"> <!-- Use "svn", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->