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diff --git a/chapter06/coreutils.xml b/chapter06/coreutils.xml
index 1d0edba88..e5513ee65 100644
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+++ b/chapter06/coreutils.xml
@@ -41,14 +41,10 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
- <para>A known issue with the <command>uname</command> program from
- this package is that the <parameter>-p</parameter> switch always
- returns <computeroutput>unknown</computeroutput>. The following patch
- fixes this behavior for Intel architectures:</para>
+ <para>Fix a bug in a test case:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">case `uname -m` in
- i?86 | x86_64) patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-uname-patch; ;;
-esac</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's/! isatty/isatty/' \
+ -e '45i\ || errno == ENOENT' gnulib-tests/test-getlogin.c</userinput></screen>
<para>POSIX requires that programs from Coreutils recognize character
boundaries correctly even in multibyte locales. The following patch
@@ -64,7 +60,8 @@ esac</userinput></screen>
<para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure \
+ --prefix=/usr \
--libexecdir=/usr/lib \
--enable-no-install-program=kill,uptime</userinput></screen>