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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/coreutils.xml | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/perl.xml | 6 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/chapter05/coreutils.xml b/chapter05/coreutils.xml index 8a35596a7..e763866ba 100644 --- a/chapter05/coreutils.xml +++ b/chapter05/coreutils.xml @@ -43,18 +43,22 @@ <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Coreutils</title> - <para>The version of the function <quote>futimens</quote> used - by Coreutils is incompatible with the version that current - Glibc provides, so we'll rename the function:</para> + <para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para> -<screen><userinput remap="pre">for file in src/{copy,touch}.c lib/utimens.{c,h} ; do \ - cp -v $file{,.orig} - sed 's/futimens/gl_&/' $file.orig > $file -done</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/tools --enable-install-program=hostname</userinput></screen> - <para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para> + <variablelist> + <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title> -<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen> + <varlistentry> + <term><envar>--enable-install-program=hostname</envar></term> + <listitem> + <para>This enables the <command>hostname</command> binary to be built + and installed – it is disabled by default but is required by the + Perl test suite.</para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + </variablelist> <para>Compile the package:</para> diff --git a/chapter05/perl.xml b/chapter05/perl.xml index ad27d07ce..7f60c5985 100644 --- a/chapter05/perl.xml +++ b/chapter05/perl.xml @@ -73,10 +73,10 @@ sed 's/command /command[ -]/' makedepend.SH.orig > makedepend.SH</userinput>< </variablelist> - <para>Only a few of the utilities contained in this package need to be - built:</para> + <para>Only a few of the utilities contained in this package, and one of its + libraries need to be built:</para> -<screen><userinput remap="make">make perl utilities</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput remap="make">make perl utilities ext/Errno/pm_to_blib</userinput></screen> <para>Although Perl comes with a test suite, it is not recommended to run it at this point. Only part of Perl was built and running |