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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-04-01 14:42:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-04-01 14:42:18 +0000 |
| commit | 10aeeb61e6911dbcebb4529346ccc5b37714709c (patch) | |
| tree | 2ad67599afb2918423b66459438508002b4c3365 | |
| parent | 7af976fb7d2082fe7ec232658b0c399ef16db5d7 (diff) | |
added the warning that gawk's make uninstall will do a rm -rf /usr/bin/* if the libexec dir override is applied
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1779 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/gawk-inst.xml | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/gawk-inst.xml | 10 |
3 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 447fbb6a4..05518d343 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ </para></listitem> +<listitem><para>April 1st, 2002 [gerard]: This is not a joke: Chapter 5+6 - +Gawk: Added a warning to never run <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> on +the package. It will be pretty much equivalent to <userinput>rm -rf +/usr/bin/*</userinput> because we override the <filename +class="directory">libexec</filename> directory definition to <filename +class="directory">/usr/bin</filename></para></listitem> + <listitem><para>March 29th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 and 06 - Updated to diffutils-2.8, modutils-2.4.15 and vim-6.1. Removed PR_PROGRAM setting for diffutils as /usr/bin/pr is now detected by the configure script. diff --git a/chapter05/gawk-inst.xml b/chapter05/gawk-inst.xml index bdbb93a5a..7d10b61cd 100644 --- a/chapter05/gawk-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/gawk-inst.xml @@ -1,6 +1,16 @@ <sect2> <title>Installation of Gawk</title> +<para>Warning: do NOT run <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> on this +package if you apply the <emphasis>sed</emphasis> fix to change the +<filename class="directory">libexec</filename> directory definition. The +<emphasis>uninstall</emphasis> rule in the <filename>Makefile</filename> +file runs a command like <userinput>rm -rf +<libexecdir>/*</userinput> Since we change the <filename +class="directory">libexec</filename> directory to <filename +class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> it'll run <userinput>rm -rf +/usr/bin/*</userinput></para> + <para>When installing Gawk using glibc-2.1.x on your base system, it may be necessary to use a fix to prevent a variable name conflict. The following commands can be used in this case. Note that these commands diff --git a/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml b/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml index de807a849..40d0dbdd7 100644 --- a/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml @@ -1,6 +1,16 @@ <sect2> <title>Installation of Gawk</title> +<para>Warning: do NOT run <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> on this +package if you apply the <emphasis>sed</emphasis> fix to change the +<filename class="directory">libexec</filename> directory definition. The +<emphasis>uninstall</emphasis> rule in the <filename>Makefile</filename> +file runs a command like <userinput>rm -rf +<libexecdir>/*</userinput> Since we change the <filename +class="directory">libexec</filename> directory to <filename +class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> it'll run <userinput>rm -rf +/usr/bin/*</userinput></para> + <para>Install Gawk by running the following commands:</para> <para><screen><userinput>cp awklib/Makefile.in awklib/Makefile.in.backup && |