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| author | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-02-07 10:48:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-02-07 10:48:55 +0000 |
| commit | 8a5f9064c4423d2a3217080dd8203c3f7b8391c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 6d5fd87e6a43bac0802cb904a5c2e445538efe95 /chapter06/coreutils.xml | |
| parent | c21999c677ff9383c9e1220675f76658a1d42438 (diff) | |
Making the chapter 6 tests more obviously optional.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3234 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/coreutils.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/coreutils.xml b/chapter06/coreutils.xml index f5b848ea4..4c5bdf129 100644 --- a/chapter06/coreutils.xml +++ b/chapter06/coreutils.xml @@ -41,14 +41,13 @@ provided by Net-tools. Prevent its installation by applying a patch:</para> <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> <para>The <command>su</command> program from Coreutils wasn't installed in -Chapter 5 because it needed <emphasis>root</emphasis> privilege to do so. We're -going to need it in a few moments for the test suite. Therefore we work around -the problem by installing it now:</para> +<xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/> because it needed +<emphasis>root</emphasis> privilege to do so. We're going to need it in a few +moments for the test suite. Therefore we install it now:</para> <screen><userinput>make install-root</userinput></screen> -<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of -checks to ensure it built correctly. However, this particular test suite +<para>The test suite of this package makes some assumptions with regards to the presence of non-root users and groups that don't apply this early into the LFS build. We therefore create a dummy system user and two dummy groups to allow the tests to run |