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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/shellutils-inst.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/findutils-inst.xml | 3 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter05/shellutils-inst.xml b/chapter05/shellutils-inst.xml index 6e784c0c0..e8ec2235c 100644 --- a/chapter05/shellutils-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/shellutils-inst.xml @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ <title>Installation of Sh-utils</title> <para>Before Sh-utils is installed, the sh-utils patch file needs -to be unpacked.</para> +to be unpacked. This patch file is necessary to avoid a conflict of +variable names with glibc when compiling and linking statically.<</para> <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../sh-utils-&sh-utils-version;.patch &&</userinput> <userinput>./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr --disable-nls &&</userinput> diff --git a/chapter06/findutils-inst.xml b/chapter06/findutils-inst.xml index ea032aa63..856a0d84e 100644 --- a/chapter06/findutils-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/findutils-inst.xml @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ <title>Installing Findutils</title> <para>Before Findutils is installed the findutils patch file has -to be unpacked.</para> +to be unpacked. This patch is to fix some compliation errors by +avoiding a variable conflict and changing some bad syntax.</para> <para>Install Findutils by running the following commands:</para> |