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authorAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-11-01 22:31:50 +0000
committerAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-11-01 22:31:50 +0000
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Merging caption and installation sections for all packages in chapters 5 and 6.
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@@ -7,7 +7,44 @@ Estimated required disk space: &grep-compsize-tools;</screen>
&aa-grep-shortdesc;
&aa-grep-dep;
-&c5-grep-inst;
+
+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
+<sect2>
+<title>Installation of Grep</title>
+
+<para>Prepare Grep to be compiled:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools \
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-perl-regexp --with-included-regex</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>--disable-perl-regexp</userinput>: This makes sure
+that <userinput>grep</userinput> does not get linked against a PCRE library
+that may be present on the host, but would not be available once we enter the
+chroot environment.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para><userinput>--with-included-regex</userinput>: This ensures that
+Grep uses its internal regular expression code. Without it, it will use
+the code from Glibc, which is known to be slightly buggy.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>Compile the programs:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make </userinput></screen>
+
+<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
+checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the
+following command will do so:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Then install them and their documentation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+</sect2>
</sect1>