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diff --git a/chapter05/bash-exp.xml b/chapter05/bash-exp.xml index 5a17c6bba..d55fd2839 100644 --- a/chapter05/bash-exp.xml +++ b/chapter05/bash-exp.xml @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <title>Command explanations</title> <para><userinput>--enable-static-link:</userinput> This configure -option causes Bash to be linked statically</para> +option causes bash to be linked statically.</para> <para><userinput>--prefix=$LFS/usr:</userinput> This configure option installs all of Bash's files under the $LFS/usr directory, which becomes the /usr @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ partition which has to be mounted at some point. Before that partition is mounted you need and will want to have bash available (it will be hard to execute the boot scripts without a shell for instance).</para> -<para><userinput>--with-curses:</userinput> This causes Bash to be +<para><userinput>--with-curses:</userinput> This causes bash to be linked against the curses library instead of the default termcap library which is becoming obsolete.</para> @@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ library which is becoming obsolete.</para> against libncurses (it can link against a static termcap for the time being just fine because we will reinstall Bash in chapter 6 anyways, where we will use libncurses), but it's a good test to make sure that -the ncurses package has been installed properly. If not, you will get in +the Ncurses package has been installed properly. If not, you will get in trouble later on in this chapter when you install the Texinfo package. -That package requires ncurses and termcap can't reliably be used +That package requires ncurses, and termcap can't reliably be used there.</para> <para><userinput>ln -sf bash $LFS/bin/sh:</userinput> This command creates @@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ in the scripts) which invokes a special bash mode. Bash will then behave (as closely as possible) as the original Bourne shell.</para> <para>The <userinput>&&</userinput>'s at the end of every line cause -the next command to be executed only if the previous command exists +the next command to be executed only if the previous command exits with a return value of 0 indicating success. In case all of these -commands are copy&pasted on the shell, it is important to be ensured -that if ./configure fails, make isn't being executed and, likewise, if make -fails, that make install isn't being executed, and so forth.</para> +commands are copy&pasted on the shell, it is important to ensure +that if ./configure fails, make isn't executed and, likewise, if make +fails, that make install isn't executed, and so forth.</para> </sect2> |