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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2016-11-09 19:48:02 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2016-11-09 19:48:02 +0000
commitac88e4435f3217062ab5c0a1eb9af426f072a9fe (patch)
tree32ec0ad5dfb47ec3f4ae54360b22e4672ee3a97e /chapter06
parent98a9662ea9b466de3efbec2f9471d7ec38243fdd (diff)
Update to vim-8.0.069.
Update to tzdata-2016i. Update to file-5.29. Update to flex-2.6.2. Update to linux-4.8.6. Update to util-linux-2.29. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11142 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/flex.xml b/chapter06/flex.xml
index 2d0f80cdd..a3db70301 100644
--- a/chapter06/flex.xml
+++ b/chapter06/flex.xml
@@ -41,9 +41,13 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Flex</title>
- <para>Prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
+ <para>The build procedure assumes the <application>help2man</application>
+ program is available to create a man page from the executable --help option.
+ This is not present, so we use an environment variable to skip this process.
+ Now, prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/flex-&flex-version;</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">HELP2MAN=/tools/bin/true \
+./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/flex-&flex-version;</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
@@ -53,6 +57,8 @@
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+ <para>There is one known test failure.</para>
+
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>