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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2009-03-12 21:06:41 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2009-03-12 21:06:41 +0000
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parentda09a82a350b0b4709d809fece1a39233dc03ff5 (diff)
Improve the explanation of the Expect/PTY test in Binutils' instructions. Fixes #2365.
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@@ -42,20 +42,21 @@
<title>Installation of Binutils</title>
<para>Verify that the PTYs are working properly inside the chroot
- environment. Check that everything is set up correctly by performing a
- simple test:</para>
+ environment by performing a simple test:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">expect -c "spawn ls"</userinput></screen>
- <para>If the following message shows up, the chroot environment is not
- set up for proper PTY operation:</para>
+ <para>This command should output the following:</para>
+
+<screen><computeroutput>spawn ls</computeroutput></screen>
+
+ <para>If, instead, the output includes the message below, then the environment
+ is not set up for proper PTY operation. This issue needs to be resolved before
+ running the test suites for Binutils and GCC:</para>
<screen><computeroutput>The system has no more ptys.
Ask your system administrator to create more.</computeroutput></screen>
- <para>This issue needs to be resolved before running the test suites
- for Binutils and GCC.</para>
-
<para>Suppress the installation of an outdated
<filename>standards.info</filename> file as a newer one is installed later
on in the Autoconf instructions:</para>