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authorGreg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-09-14 09:16:58 +0000
committerGreg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-09-14 09:16:58 +0000
commitfa2e6935d752ce276379bd57a1e8820cdda7ad9c (patch)
treeef89db523eaa9518f5d41e3079f6b43373fe24f5 /chapter05
parent0bf1ea9287e37205420476c4c06af9c41a435e65 (diff)
Small grammar adjustments.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2812 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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-rw-r--r--chapter05/lockingglibc.xml4
-rw-r--r--chapter05/whystatic.xml15
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/chapter05/lockingglibc.xml b/chapter05/lockingglibc.xml
index a8bee36e8..7938df879 100644
--- a/chapter05/lockingglibc.xml
+++ b/chapter05/lockingglibc.xml
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ all in. Or you can edit the specs file by hand if you want to: just replace
<para>Lastly, there is a possibility that some include files from the host
system have found their way into gcc's private include dir. This can happen
-because of GCC's "fixincludes" process which part of the GCC build. We'll
-explain more about this further on in this chapter. For now, run the
+because of GCC's "fixincludes" process which runs as part of the GCC build.
+We'll explain more about this further on in this chapter. For now, run the
following commands to eliminate this possibility.</para>
<para><screen><userinput>rm -f /tools/lib/gcc-lib/*/*/include/{pthread.h,bits/sigthread.h}</userinput></screen></para>
diff --git a/chapter05/whystatic.xml b/chapter05/whystatic.xml
index 86a550154..77e94e21e 100644
--- a/chapter05/whystatic.xml
+++ b/chapter05/whystatic.xml
@@ -43,13 +43,14 @@ memory space, disk space, and recompile time.</para>
<para>But if dynamic linking saves so much space, why then are we linking
the first two packages in this chapter statically? The reason is to make them
-independent from the libraries on your host system. And the point in that is
-that, if you are pressed for time, you could skip the second passes over GCC
-and Binutils, and just use the static versions to compile the rest of this
-chapter and the first few packages in the next. As in the next chapter we
-will be chrooted to the LFS partition and your host system's Glibc won't be
-available, the programs from GCC and Binutils will need to be self-contained,
-that is statically linked.</para>
+independent from the libraries on your host system. The advantage is that, if
+you are pressed for time, you could skip the second passes over GCC and
+Binutils, and just use the static versions to compile the rest of this chapter
+and the first few packages in the next. In the next chapter we will be
+chrooted to the LFS partition and once inside the chroot environment, the host
+system's Glibc won't be available, thus the programs from GCC and Binutils
+will need to be self-contained, i.e. statically linked. However, we strongly
+advise <emphasis>against</emphasis> skipping the second passes.</para>
</sect1>