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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-01-11 17:06:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-01-11 17:06:14 +0000 |
| commit | 2b138d6d321065ea4a3af0fa863b4688d02d7e5e (patch) | |
| tree | 061bbd64c5c04377ebc32cc8bcb5ea1686c844b8 /chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml | |
| parent | 873ec177165d1a9d97a917d532902b55567a18e5 (diff) | |
Rewrote diffutils + fileutils installation pages, added previously not 'cvs add'ed files
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2310 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml b/chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml index cb387de49..e197fa674 100644 --- a/chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml @@ -1,11 +1,37 @@ +<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> + <sect2> <title>Installation of Diffutils</title> -<para>Install Diffutils by running the following commands:</para> +<para>Prepare Diffutils to be compiled:</para> <para><screen><userinput>LDFLAGS="-static" CPPFLAGS=-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 \ - ./configure --prefix=$LFS/static --disable-nls && -make && + ./configure --prefix=$LFS/static --disable-nls</userinput></screen></para> + +<para>The meaning of the configure options are:</para> + +<itemizedlist> +<listitem><para><userinput>LDFLAGS="-static":</userinput> This is the most +common way to tell a package that all programs should be statically linked. +This way the <emphasis>LDFLAGS</emphasis> environment variable is set but +only in the subshell that the <filename>configure</filename> script runs +in. When <userinput>configure</userinput> is done its job, the +<emphasis>LDFLAGS</emphasis> variable won't exist +anymore.</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para><userinput>CPPFLAGS=-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2:</userinput> +The <emphasis>CPPFLAGS</emphasis> variable is a variable that's read by the +cpp program (C PreProcessor). The value of this variable tells the +preprocessor to replace every instance of <emphasis>re_max_failures</emphasis> +it finds with <emphasis>re_max_failures2</emphasis> before handing the source +file to the compiler itself for compilation. This package has problems +linking statically on systems that run an older Glibc version and this +construction fixes that problem.</para></listitem> +</itemizedlist> + +<para>Finish off by compiling and installing the package:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>make make install</userinput></screen></para> </sect2> |