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-rw-r--r--chapter06/make-exp.xml13
-rw-r--r--chapter06/make-inst.xml4
-rw-r--r--chapter06/make.xml1
-rw-r--r--index.xml5
4 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/make-exp.xml b/chapter06/make-exp.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7bd539b7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chapter06/make-exp.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<sect2>
+<title>Command explanations</title>
+
+<para>By default <filename>/usr/bin/make</filename> is installed setgid
+kmem. This is needed on some systems so it can check the load average by
+using <filename>/dev/kmem</filename>. However, on Linux systems, setgid
+kmem is not needed, so we remove this from our <filename>make</filename>
+binary. This also fixes problems with the <filename>make</filename>
+ignoring certain variables like
+<emphasis>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</emphasis>.</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
diff --git a/chapter06/make-inst.xml b/chapter06/make-inst.xml
index 64a952a4c..02cce215e 100644
--- a/chapter06/make-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/make-inst.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
-make install</userinput></screen></para>
+make install &amp;&amp;
+chgrp root /usr/bin/make &amp;&amp;
+chmod 755 /usr/bin/make</userinput></screen></para>
</sect2>
diff --git a/chapter06/make.xml b/chapter06/make.xml
index ff32f0fe3..94e5f96cc 100644
--- a/chapter06/make.xml
+++ b/chapter06/make.xml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
Estimated required disk space: &make-compsize;</screen>
&c6-make-inst;
+&c6-make-exp;
&aa-make-desc;
&aa-make-dep;
diff --git a/index.xml b/index.xml
index 9297ce359..7363d1bda 100644
--- a/index.xml
+++ b/index.xml
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
<!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml">
-<!ENTITY version "20020226">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "February 26th, 2002">
+<!ENTITY version "20020227">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "February 27th, 2002">
<!ENTITY ftp-root "ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org">
<!ENTITY http-root "http://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org">
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@
<!ENTITY c6-lilo-inst SYSTEM "chapter06/lilo-inst.xml">
<!ENTITY c6-make SYSTEM "chapter06/make.xml">
<!ENTITY c6-make-inst SYSTEM "chapter06/make-inst.xml">
+<!ENTITY c6-make-exp SYSTEM "chapter06/make-exp.xml">
<!ENTITY c6-shellutils SYSTEM "chapter06/shellutils.xml">
<!ENTITY c6-shellutils-inst SYSTEM "chapter06/shellutils-inst.xml">
<!ENTITY c6-shadowpwd SYSTEM "chapter06/shadowpwd.xml">