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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-08-12 20:03:48 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-08-12 20:03:48 +0000
commit06948c18f542ca46e66443c5afadcccd326fe2d7 (patch)
tree43363d61573dc974c0502cfaab5acb006aba4535
parent0687e9fdb0a274e5353f993f140690bb60ffe850 (diff)
Change findutils' and vim's configure option explanations conform to the convention used elsewhere in the book (fixes bug 1613)
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@6669 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml4
-rw-r--r--chapter06/findutils.xml13
-rw-r--r--chapter06/vim.xml20
3 files changed, 27 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 0bffa6e2d..10bb765bd 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
+<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure
+switch explanations to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug
+1613).</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Expand explanation of device node
creation at the start of chapter 6.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/findutils.xml b/chapter06/findutils.xml
index 0c34ac14b..61674c1e9 100644
--- a/chapter06/findutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/findutils.xml
@@ -38,9 +38,16 @@ Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \
--localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
-<para>The <parameter>localstatedir</parameter> option above changes the
-location of the <command>locate</command> database to be in <filename
-class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>, which is FHS-compliant.</para>
+<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
+
+<variablelist>
+<varlistentry>
+<term><parameter>--localstatedir</parameter></term>
+<listitem><para>This option changes the location of the <command>locate</command>
+database to be in <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>, which
+is FHS-compliant.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/vim.xml b/chapter06/vim.xml
index dd8940c9f..299ea6e23 100644
--- a/chapter06/vim.xml
+++ b/chapter06/vim.xml
@@ -55,13 +55,19 @@ addressed upstream. The following patch fixes the problems:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte</userinput></screen>
-<para>The optional but highly recommended
-<parameter>--enable-multibyte</parameter> switch includes support for
-editing files in multibyte character encodings into
-<command>vim</command>. This is needed if using a locale with
-a multibyte character set. This switch is also helpful to be able to
-edit text files initially created in Linux distributions like Fedora
-Core that use UTF-8 as a default character set.</para>
+<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
+
+<variablelist>
+<varlistentry>
+<term><parameter>--enable-multibyte</parameter></term>
+<listitem><para>This optional but highly recommended switch enables support for
+editing files in multibyte character encodings. This is needed if using a
+locale with a multibyte character set. This switch is also helpful to be able to
+edit text files initially created in Linux distributions like Fedora Core that
+use UTF-8 as a default character set.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>