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authorAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-09-15 21:47:44 +0000
committerAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-09-15 21:47:44 +0000
commit1e163254645f9440f16ff2f5556c45bdd0050022 (patch)
treeaab93c3120918f7604b798923fd20ae74f3c597d /chapter06
parent6ebafb4dbc92f6119e68e4099db570ae9428d5aa (diff)
Correcting several typos and some inconsistencies.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2819 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/bison-inst.xml2
-rw-r--r--chapter06/groff-inst.xml10
-rw-r--r--chapter06/man-inst.xml6
-rw-r--r--chapter06/pwdgroup.xml2
4 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/bison-inst.xml b/chapter06/bison-inst.xml
index 8e745ffcf..6e422bcba 100644
--- a/chapter06/bison-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/bison-inst.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<title>Installation of Bison</title>
<para>First we use a patch to bison, backported from CVS, which fixes a minor
-compliation problem with some packages:</para>
+compilation problem with some packages:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../bison-1.875-attribute.patch</userinput></screen></para>
diff --git a/chapter06/groff-inst.xml b/chapter06/groff-inst.xml
index b8be708bd..eb65a8cf4 100644
--- a/chapter06/groff-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/groff-inst.xml
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@
<sect2>
<title>Installation of Groff</title>
-<para>Groff expects an enviornment variable PAGE to contain the default paper size.
-For those in the United States, the text below is appropriate. For those who's default
-paper size is the larger "A4", you may safely change the value used when we configure
-the Groff package:</para>
+<para>Groff expects the environment variable PAGE to contain the default paper
+size. For those in the United States, the command below is appropriate. If you
+live elsewhere, you may want to change <emphasis>PAGE=letter</emphasis> to
+<emphasis>PAGE=A4</emphasis>.</para>
+
+<para>Prepare Groff for compilation:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>PAGE=letter ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen></para>
diff --git a/chapter06/man-inst.xml b/chapter06/man-inst.xml
index d57b1924b..4e3b3b6b6 100644
--- a/chapter06/man-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/man-inst.xml
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
<sect2>
<title>Installation of Man</title>
-<para>We'l make three adjustments to the sources of Man.</para>
+<para>We'll make three adjustments to the sources of Man.</para>
- <para>The first patch comments out the "MANPATH /usr/man" line in the
- <filename>man.conf</filename> file to prevent redundant results when using
+<para>The first patch comments out the "MANPATH /usr/man" line in the
+<filename>man.conf</filename> file to prevent redundant results when using
programs such as <userinput>whatis</userinput>:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-manpath-patch-version;-manpath.patch</userinput></screen></para>
diff --git a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
index 6cf407a98..15d00e6b7 100644
--- a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
+++ b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ with a GID of 1, be present. All other group names and GIDs can be chosen
freely by the user, as well-written packages don't depend on GID numbers but
use the group's name.</para>
-<para>Lastly, we re-login to the chroot envrionment. User name and group name
+<para>Lastly, we re-login to the chroot environment. User name and group name
resolution will start working immediately after the
<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename> files are
created, because we installed a full glibc in Chapter 5. This will get rid of