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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-02-05 18:29:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-02-05 18:29:23 +0000 |
| commit | fdfb226af0542565bc66e7dfaff1764feb80e734 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d3b569f72649db204a1f36a67626371dad8c384 /chapter05/findutils-inst.xml | |
| parent | 68ed9a53ee27f2e693c958931bb499f20bdf4dff (diff) | |
Bill's typo fixes
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2427 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter05/findutils-inst.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/findutils-inst.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/chapter05/findutils-inst.xml b/chapter05/findutils-inst.xml index 985242b33..b17c9ea30 100644 --- a/chapter05/findutils-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/findutils-inst.xml @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ <para>The Findutils package is quite old and it has problems compiling against newer Glibc versions (Glibc-2.0.x and up). You need to apply the -patch which fixes the following issues:</para> +patch, which fixes the following issues:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>Findutils declares a function called basename, but this @@ -13,14 +13,14 @@ function name is already used by the C standard libraries. This patch changes the Findutils version of basename function so that it is called basename2 instead.</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Findutils uses an incorrect way to use library files. It +<listitem><para>Findutils uses library files in an incorrect way. It declares library functions, to tell the compiler what the name of the function will be when the libraries are linked in. This syntax is invalid and causes compiler warnings/errors. This patch removes this improper syntax.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Every GNU package is supposed use a macro called _GNU_SOURCE. -This macro enables declarations of GNU library extension functions and so the +This macro enables declarations of GNU library extension functions so the compiler will be able to detect name conflicts between functions more easily. This patch adds this macro to the source code.</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> |