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-rw-r--r--chapter04/chapter04.xml3
-rw-r--r--chapter06/nettools-inst.xml5
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 9a4f63001..eba096d7a 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Added net-tools patch to fix
+mii-tool compilation</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Updated the Why
Static page to more accurately represent the difference between statically and
dynamically linked binaries. Thanks to Ian Molton for point this out. Fixes
diff --git a/chapter04/chapter04.xml b/chapter04/chapter04.xml
index a2aff1477..92aedcac2 100644
--- a/chapter04/chapter04.xml
+++ b/chapter04/chapter04.xml
@@ -286,6 +286,9 @@ Ncurses Etip Patch (&ncurses-etip-patch-version;) - &ncurses-etip-patch-size;:
Ncurses Vsscanf Patch (&ncurses-vsscanf-patch-version;) - &ncurses-vsscanf-patch-size;:
<ulink url="&http;/ncurses-5.3-vsscanf.patch"/>
+Net-Tools mii-tool Patch (1.60) - 2k:
+<ulink url="&http;/net-tools-1.60-miitool-gcc33-1.patch"/>
+
Perl Libc Patch (&perl-libc-patch-version;) - &perl-libc-patch-size;:
<ulink url="&http;/perl-&perl-libc-patch-version;.patch"/>
diff --git a/chapter06/nettools-inst.xml b/chapter06/nettools-inst.xml
index 942feadc0..c6783234b 100644
--- a/chapter06/nettools-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/nettools-inst.xml
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ to actually enable these protocols in the kernel -- what you do here is merely
telling the package to include support for those protocols in its programs,
but it's up to the kernel to make the protocols available.</para>
+<para>The following patch will fix a small syntax problem with the source
+for the mii-tool binary:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../net-tools-1.60-miitool-gcc33-1.patch</userinput></screen></para>
+
<para>Prepare Net-tools for compilation with:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>make config</userinput></screen></para>