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authorGreg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-10-21 01:30:11 +0000
committerGreg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-10-21 01:30:11 +0000
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Add clarifying paragraph to Chapter 5 Introduction.
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@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ before the actual installation instructions. For a short description of
each program in a package, please refer to the corresponding section in
<xref linkend="appendixa"/>.</para>
+<para>The build instructions assume that you are using the bash shell. There
+is also a general expectation that you have already unpacked the sources for a
+package and have performed a <userinput>cd</userinput> into the source
+directory before issuing the build commands.</para>
+
<para>Several of the packages are patched before compilation, but only when
the patch is needed to circumvent a problem. Often the patch is needed in
both this and the next chapter, but sometimes in only one of them. Therefore,