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diff --git a/chapter05/introduction.xml b/chapter05/introduction.xml index 2a31498cd..d3fdea79d 100644 --- a/chapter05/introduction.xml +++ b/chapter05/introduction.xml @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ before the actual installation instructions. For a short description of each program in a package, please refer to the corresponding section in <xref linkend="appendixa"/>.</para> +<para>The build instructions assume that you are using the bash shell. There +is also a general expectation that you have already unpacked the sources for a +package and have performed a <userinput>cd</userinput> into the source +directory before issuing the build commands.</para> + <para>Several of the packages are patched before compilation, but only when the patch is needed to circumvent a problem. Often the patch is needed in both this and the next chapter, but sometimes in only one of them. Therefore, |