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authorAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-02-22 19:05:53 +0000
committerAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-02-22 19:05:53 +0000
commitcd0c92d633ca0277a961a76d67ae8c094593d123 (patch)
treeef571dcd6440da1f18f459738531201f145b28ec /chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
parent9da62ab0cd9dcd7f4cdec8348432c9ad13a126aa (diff)
Adding a touch of mtab before the running of Coreutils test suite.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3257 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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@@ -49,8 +49,11 @@ of.</para></listitem>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-<para>To have the results tested, issue:
-<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
+<para>If you wish to have the results tested, first make sure an mtab file
+exists with <userinput>touch /etc/mtab</userinput> to prevent some sixty tests
+from failing, and (if it doesn't already exist) fake the presence of an old
+pager with <userinput>ln -s /tools/bin/cat /bin/more</userinput> to prevent one
+test from failing, then issue: <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
<para>Install most of the package:</para>