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authorThomas Balu Walter <tw@itreff.de>2001-03-18 19:30:50 +0000
committerThomas Balu Walter <tw@itreff.de>2001-03-18 19:30:50 +0000
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@@ -9,15 +9,16 @@ option causes Bash to be linked statically
<para>
<userinput>--prefix=$LFS/usr:</userinput> This configure option installs
all of Bash's files under the $LFS/usr directory, which becomes the /usr
-directory after you chroot into $LFS or when you reboot the system into LFS.
+directory after the user chrooted into $LFS or when he rebooted
+the system into LFS.
</para>
<para>
<userinput>--bindir=$LFS/bin:</userinput> This installs the executable
files in $LFS/bin. We do this because we want bash to be in /bin, not in
-/usr/bin. One reason being: your /usr partition might be on a seperate
+/usr/bin. One reason being: the /usr partition might be on a seperate
partition which has to be mounted at some point. Before that partition is
-mounted you need and will want to have bash available (it will be hard to
+mounted a user needs and will want to have bash available (it will be hard to
execute the boot scripts without a shell for instance).
</para>
@@ -44,8 +45,9 @@ possible) as the original Bourne shell.
<para>
The <userinput>&amp;&amp;</userinput>'s at the end of every line cause
the next command only to be executed when the previous command exists
-with a return value of 0 indicating success. In case you copy&amp;paste
-all of these commands on the shell you want to be ensured that if
+with a return value of 0 indicating success. In case all of these
+commands are copy&amp;pasted
+on the shell is is important to be ensured that if
./configure fails, make isn't being executed and likewise if make fails
that make install isn't being executed, and so forth.
</para>