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authorKen Moffat <ken@linuxfromscratch.org>2008-02-19 22:48:40 +0000
committerKen Moffat <ken@linuxfromscratch.org>2008-02-19 22:48:40 +0000
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Update module-init-tools, fixes #2127.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8489 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Module-Init-Tools</title>
- <para>First correct a potential problem when modules are specified
- using regular expressions:</para>
+ <para>The tarball only contains sgml source for the manpages. The following
+ patch contains the result of processing this through <command>docbook2man</command>
+ (see <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/pst/docbook-utils.html"/>)
+ which we do not build as part of a basic LFS installation:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&module-init-modprobe-patch;</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&module-init-manpages-patch;</userinput></screen>
- <para>Issue the following commands to perform the tests (note that the
- <command>make distclean</command> command is required to clean up the source
- tree, as the source gets recompiled as part of the testing process):</para>
+ <para>The testsuite of this package is geared towards the needs of its
+ Maintainer. The command <command>make check</command> builds a specially
+ wrapped version of modprobe which is useless for normal operation. To run
+ this, issue the following commands (note that the <command>make clean</command>
+ command is required to clean up the source tree before recompiling for
+ normal use):</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">./configure
make check
-make distclean</userinput></screen>
+make clean</userinput></screen>
<para>Prepare Module-Init-Tools for compilation:</para>