Mostly text updates in Chapter 8.

There are a couple of minor command changes.



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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/chapter08/gcc.xml b/chapter08/gcc.xml
index 6902211ca..f771c135d 100644
--- a/chapter08/gcc.xml
+++ b/chapter08/gcc.xml
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
              --disable-bootstrap      \
              --with-system-zlib</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Note that for other languages, there are some prerequisites that
+    <para>Note that for other programming languages there are some prerequisites that
     are not yet available. See the
-    <ulink url="&blfs-book;general/gcc.html">BLFS Book</ulink>
+    <ulink url="&blfs-book;general/gcc.html">BLFS Book GCC page</ulink>
     for instructions on how to build all of GCC's supported languages.</para>
 
     <variablelist>
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
         <term><parameter>LD=ld</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>This parameter makes the configure script use the ld installed
-          by the binutils installed earlier in this chapter, rather than
+          by the binutils built earlier in this chapter, rather than
           the cross-built version which would otherwise be used.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
         <term><parameter>--with-system-zlib</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>This switch tells GCC to link to the system installed copy of
-          the Zlib library, rather than its own internal copy.</para>
+          the zlib library, rather than its own internal copy.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
       critical. Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
     </important>
 
-   <para>One set of tests in the GCC test suite is known to exhaust the stack,
-   so increase the stack size prior to running the tests:</para>
+   <para>One set of tests in the GCC test suite is known to exhaust the default
+   stack, so increase the stack size prior to running the tests:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">ulimit -s 32768</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ ln -sfv ../../libexec/gcc/$(gcc -dumpmachine)/&gcc-version;/liblto_plugin.so \
 
     <para>Now that our final toolchain is in place, it is important to again ensure
     that compiling and linking will work as expected. We do this by performing
-    the same sanity checks as we did earlier in the chapter:</para>
+    some sanity checks:</para>
 
     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="adjusting.xml"
@@ -205,8 +205,8 @@ ln -sfv ../../libexec/gcc/$(gcc -dumpmachine)/&gcc-version;/liblto_plugin.so \
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/&gcc-version;/../../../../lib/crti.o succeeded
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/&gcc-version;/../../../../lib/crtn.o succeeded</computeroutput></screen>
 
-  <para>Depending on your machine architecture, the above may differ slightly,
-  the difference usually being the name of the directory
+  <para>Depending on your machine architecture, the above may differ slightly.
+  The difference will be the name of the directory
   after <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/gcc</filename>. The important
   thing to look for here is that <command>gcc</command> has found all three
   <filename>crt*.o</filename> files under the
@@ -228,16 +228,8 @@ ln -sfv ../../libexec/gcc/$(gcc -dumpmachine)/&gcc-version;/liblto_plugin.so \
  /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/&gcc-version;/include-fixed
  /usr/include</computeroutput></screen>
 
-   <para>Again, note that the directory named after your target triplet may be
-   different than the above, depending on your architecture.</para>
-
-<!--  This appears to be obsolete
-
-    <note><para>As of version 4.3.0, GCC now unconditionally installs the
-    <filename>limits.h</filename> file into the private
-    <filename class="directory">include-fixed</filename> directory, and that
-    directory is required to be in place.</para></note>
--->
+   <para>Again, the directory named after your target triplet may be
+   different than the above, depending on your system architecture.</para>
 
     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="adjusting.xml"