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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-01-02 22:01:49 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-01-02 22:01:49 +0000
commitb7cea6e536b6037bf891acdf525230c9b9be72f1 (patch)
tree188098834b82df44a03b8b9a62dce17f44918612 /chapter06
parentf991b5439179665973ed7f38a72dac4c3c5178f6 (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>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</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 &amp;&amp;
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 \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--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 &amp;&amp;
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>