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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-07-23 10:46:04 +0000
committerMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-07-23 10:46:04 +0000
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<sect2>
<title>Installation of Gzip</title>
-<para>Before Gzip is installed, the gzip patch file needs to be unpacked.</para>
+<para>Before Gzip is installed, the gzip patch file needs to be
+unpacked. This patch file is necessary to avoid a conflict of variable
+names with glibc when compiling and linking statically.</para>
<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gzip-&gzip-version;.patch &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr &amp;&amp;</userinput>