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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-01-11 18:15:01 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-01-11 18:15:01 +0000
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+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
<sect2>
<title>Installation of Grep</title>
-<para>Install Grep by running the following commands:</para>
+<para>Prepare Grep to be compiled:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>LDFLAGS="-static" CPPFLAGS=-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;./configure --prefix=$LFS/static --disable-nls \
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-perl-regexp &amp;&amp;
-make &amp;&amp;
-make install</userinput></screen></para>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-perl-regexp</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>The meaning of the configure option is:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>--disable-perl-regexp:</userinput> This
+configure option makes sure Grep is not linked against the PCRE library,
+which is often only available as a shared library in distributions. Not
+using this option might result in a compilation error.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>And finish off installing the package:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
</sect2>