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| author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2011-06-05 17:25:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2011-06-05 17:25:03 +0000 |
| commit | 5b62b8df9bb422aaad6783f7a703ce01089902ca (patch) | |
| tree | 7173673f98ece55225826ee6bfe5657f459726b8 /prologue/why.xml | |
| parent | 93e515374757ca20ab7ced1d194c42f2786103c7 (diff) | |
Add rationale for Glib and PCRE. Fixes #2885.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9561 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/prologue/why.xml b/prologue/why.xml index 8c6ae0e10..44049c786 100644 --- a/prologue/why.xml +++ b/prologue/why.xml @@ -163,6 +163,14 @@ </listitem> <listitem> + <para>Glib</para> + + <para>This package contains low-level core library functions for things + such as event loops and threading. It is used by one other LFS package, + Pkg-config.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Glibc</para> <para>This package contains the main C library. Linux programs would @@ -329,6 +337,15 @@ </listitem> <listitem> + <para>PCRE</para> + + <para>This package is provides a library that can be used to implement + regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics + as Perl 5. It is a mandatory dependency of Glib, and can also be used + by Grep.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Perl</para> <para>This package is an interpreter for the runtime language |