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<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>
+<!--
<para><userinput>sed: </userinput> The sed command here searches for the
string "$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o" and replaces it by "$(CC) $(CFLAGS)
$(LDFLAGS) -o" in the Makefile file. We make that modification so it
@@ -23,5 +24,13 @@ link a package statically. This is also the most common way.
The -all-static value is only used with the binutils package and won't
be used throughout the rest of this book.</para>
+I HAVEN'T REMOVED THIS AS WE MAY NEED TO COPY SOME OF IT TO A LATER
+PACKAGE. IS THIS THE CASE?
+
+-->
+
+<para><userinput>make CC="gcc -static": </userinput>This is the method
+we use to tell gcc that we want bzip2 to be linked statically.</para>
+
</sect2>