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| author | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-07-13 15:28:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-07-13 15:28:35 +0000 |
| commit | b540268f6ab54e1f83feeb0d325335dd51b952ad (patch) | |
| tree | db76d2cdc167366bc88485ce45cd9a47bb26a1e3 /chapter06/kbd.xml | |
| parent | 83f017331fdfbe05eda75eb76e397fdbecae14ec (diff) | |
Moved the executables: nice, find, kbd_mode, openvt, and setfont to /bin. Added --datadir=/lib/kbd to kbd's configure.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7668 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06/kbd.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/kbd.xml | 33 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/kbd.xml b/chapter06/kbd.xml index fde7b799d..1ada7b17c 100644 --- a/chapter06/kbd.xml +++ b/chapter06/kbd.xml @@ -50,7 +50,21 @@ <para>Prepare Kbd for compilation:</para> -<screen><userinput>./configure</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput>./configure --datadir=/lib/kbd</userinput></screen> + + <variablelist> + <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title> + + <varlistentry> + <term><parameter>--datadir=/lib/kbd</parameter></term> + <listitem> + <para>This option puts keyboard layout data in a directory that will + always be on the root partition instead of the default <filename + class="directory">/usr/share/kbd</filename>.</para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + </variablelist> <para>Compile the package:</para> @@ -64,11 +78,22 @@ <note> <para>For some languages (e.g., Belarusian) the Kbd package doesn't - provide a useful keymap (the stock <quote>by</quote> keymap assumes the - ISO-8859-5 encoding, while everybody uses CP1251 instead). Users of such - languages have to download working keymaps separately.</para> + provide a useful keymap where the stock <quote>by</quote> keymap assumes + the ISO-8859-5 encoding, and the CP1251 keymap is normally used. Users of + such languages have to download working keymaps separately.</para> </note> + <para>Some of the scripts in the LFS-Bootscripts package depend on + <command>kbd_mode</command>, <command>openvt</command>, and + <command>setfont</command>. As <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> + may not be available during the early stages of booting, those binaries + need to be on the root partition:</para> + +<screen><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/{kbd_mode,openvt,setfont} /bin</userinput></screen> + + + + </sect2> <sect2 id="contents-kbd" role="content"> |