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authorAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-01-12 23:24:06 +0000
committerAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-01-12 23:24:06 +0000
commitf4993cfc75b05e310e5c9f4821fec8526ab4701d (patch)
treeea1b3172bf48d754412c8bcb500f50a031538d84 /chapter06
parent58882995289b0b69420b13297bf87c4b4d398192 (diff)
Small textual adjustments.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3162 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/bash.xml2
-rw-r--r--chapter06/findutils.xml11
-rw-r--r--chapter06/inetutils.xml16
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/bash.xml b/chapter06/bash.xml
index b0c6611eb..52e95dace 100644
--- a/chapter06/bash.xml
+++ b/chapter06/bash.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ patch:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-patch;</userinput></screen>
-<para>Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
+<para>Now prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/chapter06/findutils.xml b/chapter06/findutils.xml
index 4b3ec4d22..1041a20ab 100644
--- a/chapter06/findutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/findutils.xml
@@ -15,17 +15,16 @@ Estimated required disk space: &findutils-compsize;</screen>
<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
<sect2>
-<title>Installing Findutils</title>
+<title>Installation of Findutils</title>
<para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
-<para>By default, the location of the updatedb database is in
-<filename>/usr/var</filename>. To make the location of
-<filename>/var/lib/misc/locatedb</filename> file FHS compliant, pass the
-<emphasis>--localstatedir=/var/lib/misc</emphasis> option to
-<userinput>configure</userinput>.</para>
+<para>The default location for the <emphasis>locate</emphasis> database is
+<filename>/usr/var</filename>. To make the location of this database
+FHS-compliant, add <emphasis>--localstatedir=/var/lib/misc</emphasis>
+to the above configure options.</para>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/inetutils.xml b/chapter06/inetutils.xml
index c15d82aab..d78416bcd 100644
--- a/chapter06/inetutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/inetutils.xml
@@ -23,25 +23,25 @@ pages anyway. The following patch will correct this situation:</para>
<para>Now prepare Inetutils for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-syslogd \
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--libexecdir=/usr/sbin --disable-logger \
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-logger --disable-syslogd \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-whois --disable-servers</userinput></screen>
<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
<itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para><userinput>--disable-syslogd</userinput>: This option
-prevents inetutils from installing the System Log Daemon, which is
-installed with the Sysklogd package.</para></listitem>
-
<listitem><para><userinput>--disable-logger</userinput>: This option
-prevents inetutils from installing the logger program, which is used by
+prevents Inetutils from installing the logger program, which is used by
scripts to pass messages to the System Log Daemon. We do not install it
because Util-linux installs a better version later.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para><userinput>--disable-syslogd</userinput>: This option
+prevents Inetutils from installing the System Log Daemon, which is
+installed with the Sysklogd package.</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para><userinput>--disable-whois</userinput>: This option disables
-the building of the inetutils whois client, which is woefully out of date.
+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