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author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-01-02 22:01:49 +0000 |
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committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-01-02 22:01:49 +0000 |
commit | b7cea6e536b6037bf891acdf525230c9b9be72f1 (patch) | |
tree | 188098834b82df44a03b8b9a62dce17f44918612 /chapter06 | |
parent | f991b5439179665973ed7f38a72dac4c3c5178f6 (diff) |
reworded some of the text
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2268 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml index 99960aca5..b89ecb312 100644 --- a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> <sect2> -<title>Installation of Glibc</title> +<title>Glibc installation</title> <para>Before starting to install glibc, you must cd into the glibc-&glibc-version; directory and unpack glibc-linuxthreads inside @@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ been warned.</para> <para>Basically, compiling Glibc in any other way than the book suggests is putting your system at very high risk.</para> -<para>We'll start by applying a patch to Glibc that fixes a few -things:</para> +<para>We'll start by applying a patch to Glibc that fixes the following:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>It converts all occurrences of <emphasis>$(PERL)</emphasis> @@ -59,25 +58,23 @@ it.</para></listitem> <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../glibc-&glibc-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para> <para>Glibc will check for the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file -and abort with an error if the file is missing, so we create it.</para> +and abort with an error if the file is missing, so we must create it.</para> <para><screen><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen></para> <para>It is recommended by the Glibc installation documentation to build -Glibc outside of the source directory in a dedicated directory. Let's -create such a directory and make it our CWD (Current Working -Directory).</para> +Glibc outside of the source directory in a dedicated directory.</para> <para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../glibc-build && cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen></para> -<para>Next, configure Glibc.</para> +<para>Next, prepare Glibc to be compiled.</para> <para><screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \ --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \ --libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen></para> -<para>During the configure stage you will see the following warning:</para> +<para>During this stage you will see the following warning:</para> <blockquote><screen>configure: warning: *** These auxiliary programs are missing or too old: msgfmt @@ -127,9 +124,10 @@ time at the end of this chapter.</para> <para><screen><userinput>make && make install</userinput></screen></para> -<para>Locales aren't installed by default so we install them now. Locales -are used by Glibc to make your Linux system talk in a different language -such as your native tongue.</para> +<para>Locales aren't installed when you ran +<userinput>make install</userinput>, so we have to do that ourselves now. +Locales are used by Glibc to make your Linux system talk in a different +language.</para> <para><screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen></para> @@ -139,9 +137,9 @@ which you need or want. This can be achieved using the localedef command. Information on this can be found in the INSTALL file in the glibc-&glibc-version; tree.</para> -<para>To finish off the installation we'll reload Bash so it uses the new -libnss files. This will get rid of the <emphasis>I have no name!</emphasis> -message in the command prompt.</para> +<para>To finish off the installation we'll reload Bash so it uses the +libnss files. This will also get rid of the +<emphasis>I have no name!</emphasis> message in the command prompt.</para> <para><screen><userinput>exec /static/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen></para> |