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| author | Greg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-10-05 12:40:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-10-05 12:40:57 +0000 |
| commit | 7da1bffa1e5dfdc369de14a1e4784c7272977fbb (patch) | |
| tree | 9ce8167f0f9aa5db5b3898504248430740afe931 /chapter06 | |
| parent | 4e629074ec07d0f8f4de48abd277e84f4d3188cc (diff) | |
Grub and Inetutils clarifications from list.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2922 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/grub-inst.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml | 9 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/grub-inst.xml b/chapter06/grub-inst.xml index de889e0d9..f8680e2ae 100644 --- a/chapter06/grub-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/grub-inst.xml @@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ <sect2> <title>Installation of Grub</title> +<para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its default +optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Therefore, if you +have defined any environment variables that override default optimizations, +such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting them when building +Grub.</para> + <para>Grub needs a patch applied that fixes a compile problem with GCC-3.3.1:</para> diff --git a/chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml b/chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml index a3d9e1329..8d1bd72c9 100644 --- a/chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml @@ -28,9 +28,12 @@ the building of the inetutils whois client, which is woefully out of date. Instructions for a better whois client are in the BLFS book.</para></listitem> <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-servers</userinput>: This disables the -compilation of the various server utilities included as part of the Inetutils -package. Many of these have known security vulnerabilities, and for most there -are better replacements.</para></listitem> +installation of the various network servers included as part of the Inetutils +package. These servers are deemed not appropriate in a basic LFS system. Some +are insecure by nature and are only considered safe on trusted networks. More +information can be found at +<ulink url="&blfs-root;view/cvs/basicnet/inetutils.html"/>. Note that better +replacements are available for many of these servers.</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> <para>Compile the package:</para> |