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authorMarc Heerdink <gimli@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-12-10 13:42:42 +0000
committerMarc Heerdink <gimli@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-12-10 13:42:42 +0000
commit8ac74394772c35626799ce34100df0decdb7fc04 (patch)
treee17becb54665a714f617762dcff471a170379631 /chapter05
parent7fe22dd2e62ed9fbb30e6c56d7c970803d026909 (diff)
Bug 235
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1368 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter05')
-rw-r--r--chapter05/diffutils-exp.xml5
-rw-r--r--chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter05/diffutils-exp.xml b/chapter05/diffutils-exp.xml
index 4dc40ea07..5bc78f769 100644
--- a/chapter05/diffutils-exp.xml
+++ b/chapter05/diffutils-exp.xml
@@ -9,5 +9,10 @@ before handing the source file to the compiler itself for compilation. This
package has problems linking statically on systems that run an older
Glibc version and this construction fixes that problem.</para>
+<para><userinput>PR_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/pr:</userinput> When 'diff' is called
+with the '-i' flag, it tries to find 'pr' at the location specified with the
+PR_PROGRAM variable. By default, this variable points to '/bin/pr', but since
+we install 'pr' in /usr/bin, we need to change this.</para>
+
</sect2>
diff --git a/chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml b/chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml
index d0266cf73..f8b9e1521 100644
--- a/chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ use the first version.</para>
<para><screen><userinput>export CPPFLAGS=-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr &amp;&amp;
unset CPPFLAGS &amp;&amp;
-make LDFLAGS=-static &amp;&amp;
+make LDFLAGS=-static PR_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/pr &amp;&amp;
make install</userinput></screen></para>
<para>If you are using a newer glibc version (2.2.x), you can use the following
commands to install Diffutils:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr &amp;&amp;
-make LDFLAGS=-static &amp;&amp;
+make LDFLAGS=-static PR_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/pr &amp;&amp;
make install</userinput></screen></para>
</sect2>