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| author | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-02-05 00:44:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-02-05 00:44:06 +0000 |
| commit | 76c0b783eeb766c0dec8e66dab2e6c275ba0786d (patch) | |
| tree | 751e2cc85e0ed2736148a391b6178b79b165feca /chapter05 | |
| parent | 2d416d6f14ff0a42d1058c7a8b5350204d3ce88b (diff) | |
spelling / phrasing fixes
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1547 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter05/whystatic.xml b/chapter05/whystatic.xml index 316449d1e..a0d611469 100644 --- a/chapter05/whystatic.xml +++ b/chapter05/whystatic.xml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ based to one of the LFS mailing lists.</para> <para>When making (compiling) a program, rather than having to rewrite all the -functions for dealing with the kernel, hardware, files, etc. everytime you +functions for dealing with the kernel, hardware, files, etc. every time you write a new program, all these basic functions are instead kept in libraries. glibc, which you install later, is one of these major libraries, which contain code for all the basic functions programs use, like opening files, printing @@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ program, so that it can use any of the functions that the library has.</para> <para>However, these libraries can be very large (for example, libc.a -from can often be around 2.5MB), so you may not want a seperate copy of +from can often be around 2.5MB), so you may not want a separate copy of each library attached to the program. Just imagine if you had a simple command like ls with an extra 2.5MB attached to it! Instead of making the library an actual part of the -program, or Statically Linked, the library is kept a seperate file, +program, or Statically Linked, the library is kept a separate file, which is loaded only when the program needs it. This is what we call Dynamically Linked, as the library is loaded and unloaded dynamically, as the program needs it.</para> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ them, hence the <userinput>--enable-static-link</userinput>, through Chapter 5. Once in Chapter 6, the first thing we do is build the main set of system libraries, glibc. Once this is made we start rebuilding all the programs we just did in Chapter 5, but this time dynamically linked, -so that we can take advantage of the space saving opportunites.</para> +so that we can take advantage of the space saving opportunities.</para> <para>And there you have it, that's why you need to use those weird <userinput>-static</userinput> flags. If you try building everything |