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| author | Jeremy Utley <jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-12 23:16:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeremy Utley <jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-12 23:16:54 +0000 |
| commit | dac0f591d2e2ee633d0bc6c3d2b4dbac33ce6f25 (patch) | |
| tree | e6a51d3b92c07eea3b7b00413a7fc268407440e7 | |
| parent | 9b21339cc6f56c05fabc47f30a0ece72743b33c6 (diff) | |
Added descriptions to grep configure switches
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2795 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/grep-inst.xml | 11 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index a4ab32795..f0eecfe96 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> +<listitem><para>September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Grep: Added +descriptions of configure switches courtesy of Anderson Lizardo</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>September 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed /usr/lib/locale directory creation - it's created during Chapter 6 - Glibc where it's more relevant.</para></listitem> diff --git a/chapter05/grep-inst.xml b/chapter05/grep-inst.xml index 6051ffd2e..8db7e3e42 100644 --- a/chapter05/grep-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/grep-inst.xml @@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools \ --disable-perl-regexp --with-included-regex</userinput></screen></para> +<para>The meaning of the configure switches:</para> + +<itemizedlist> +<listitem><para><userinput>--disable-perl-regexp</userinput>: This makes sure +that grep does not get linked against a PCRE library that may be present on +the host, but would not be available once we enter the chroot environment.</para></listitem> +<listitem><para><userinput>--with-included-regex</userinput>: This ensures that +grep uses it's internal regular expression code. Without it, it will use +the code from glibc, which is known to be slightly buggy.</para></listitem> +</itemizedlist> + <para>Compile the programs:</para> <para><screen><userinput>make </userinput></screen></para> |