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diff --git a/chapter05/coreutils.xml b/chapter05/coreutils.xml index cea1f6fd6..6672e18d5 100644 --- a/chapter05/coreutils.xml +++ b/chapter05/coreutils.xml @@ -18,14 +18,15 @@ And for the patch: <title>Installation of Coreutils</title> <para>Coreutils has an issue when compiled against Glibc-&glibc-version;. -Without the patch below, some of the Coreutils utilities (head, tail, sort etc) -will reject their traditional syntax which has been in use for approximately 30 -years. The old syntax is so pervasive that compatibility must be preserved until -the many places where it is used can be updated. More details are provided in -the comments inside the patch itself. Use of this patch is by no means -compulsory but opting not to use it means you'll have deal with the consequences -yourself, i.e. patch the many software packages that use the old syntax. Apply -the patch:</para> +Without the patch below, some of the Coreutils utilities +(<command>head</command>, <command>tail</command>, <command>sort</command>, +and others) will reject their traditional syntax which has been in use for +approximately 30 years. This old syntax is so pervasive that compatibility +should be preserved until the many places where it is used can be updated. +More details on this are provided in the comments inside the patch itself. Use +of this patch is by no means compulsory, but not using it means you'll have to +deal with the consequences yourself: patch the many packages that use the old +syntax. Therefore, better apply the patch:</para> <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-posixver-patch;</userinput></screen> @@ -37,20 +38,11 @@ the patch:</para> <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> -<para>As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the -temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Coreutils -test suite anyway, the following command will do so:</para> - -<screen><userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput></screen> - -<para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para> - -<itemizedlist> -<listitem><para><userinput>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</userinput>: This tells the -test suite to run several additional tests that are considered relatively -expensive on some platforms. However, they are generally not a problem on -Linux.</para></listitem> -</itemizedlist> +<para>(If you insist on testing the results, then issue: +<userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput>. The +<emphasis>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</emphasis> parameter tells the test suite to +run several additional tests that are considered relatively expensive on some +platforms but generally are not a problem on Linux.)</para> <para>And install the package:</para> |