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| author | Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-01-06 01:59:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-01-06 01:59:08 +0000 |
| commit | fa21b3dc894b9964620968dfae6685d69ce89fb9 (patch) | |
| tree | 2353b9af8cae48156b98e651873d483e994e352a /chapter06/texinfo.xml | |
| parent | 60e34b52810dd47567ca18aa2c86fe4cd7c9fd01 (diff) | |
Initial support of UTF-8. Thanks Alexander Patrakov.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7245 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/texinfo.xml b/chapter06/texinfo.xml index fc3138517..93c83c465 100644 --- a/chapter06/texinfo.xml +++ b/chapter06/texinfo.xml @@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg></seglistitem> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Texinfo</title> +<para>The <command>info</command> program makes assumptions such as that +a string occupies the same number of character cells on the screen and bytes +in memory and that one can break the string anywhere, which fail in +UTF-8 based locales. The patch below makes them valid +by falling back to English messages when a multibyte locale is in use:</para> + +<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&texinfo-multibyte-patch;</userinput></screen> + <para>Texinfo allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. Apply the following patch to fix this:</para> @@ -63,6 +71,7 @@ root of the TeX tree if, for example, a TeX package will be installed later.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> +<!-- FIXME: doesn't the TeX installation in BLFS overwrite files there? --> <para>The Info documentation system uses a plain text file to hold its list of menu entries. The file is located at |