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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-01-11 17:19:41 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-01-11 17:19:41 +0000
commita1d3af694f549cb435f4095f06c5746ea0bbf08c (patch)
tree6acb28fa8ab6349a0234c49c1548b099d3d8e79f /chapter05
parent2b138d6d321065ea4a3af0fa863b4688d02d7e5e (diff)
rewrote findutils installation page
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2311 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter05')
-rw-r--r--chapter05/findutils-exp.xml9
-rw-r--r--chapter05/findutils-inst.xml19
-rw-r--r--chapter05/findutils.xml5
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/chapter05/findutils-exp.xml b/chapter05/findutils-exp.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 174cf2db7..000000000
--- a/chapter05/findutils-exp.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<sect2>
-<title>Command explanations</title>
-
-<para><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-patch-version;.patch</userinput>: This
-patch is to fix some compilation errors by
-avoiding a variable conflict and changing some bad syntax.</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
diff --git a/chapter05/findutils-inst.xml b/chapter05/findutils-inst.xml
index d49a3db16..df3da659a 100644
--- a/chapter05/findutils-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter05/findutils-inst.xml
@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@
+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
<sect2>
<title>Installing Findutils</title>
-<para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
-install it.</para>
+<para>The Findutils package is quite old and it has problems compiling
+against newer Glibc versions (Glibc-2.0.x and up). You need to apply the
+patch that fixes some variable conflicts you'd otherwise end up
+with:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
-<para>Install Findutils by running the following commands:</para>
+<para>Install Findutils by running the following:</para>
-<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-patch-version;.patch &amp;&amp;
-CPPFLAGS="-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2" \
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LDFLAGS="-static" ./configure --prefix=$LFS/static &amp;&amp;
-make &amp;&amp;
+<para><screen><userinput>CPPFLAGS="-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2" \
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LDFLAGS="-static" ./configure --prefix=$LFS/static
+make
make install</userinput></screen></para>
</sect2>
diff --git a/chapter05/findutils.xml b/chapter05/findutils.xml
index dad29df27..0ecaae958 100644
--- a/chapter05/findutils.xml
+++ b/chapter05/findutils.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,9 @@
<screen>Estimated build time: &findutils-time-static;
Estimated required disk space: &findutils-compsize-static;</screen>
-&c5-findutils-inst;
-&c5-findutils-exp;
-&aa-findutils-desc;
+&aa-findutils-shortdesc;
&aa-findutils-dep;
+&c5-findutils-inst;
</sect1>