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@@ -36,8 +36,10 @@ Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, Texinfo</seg></seglistite
<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para><userinput>--with-root-prefix=""</userinput>: Certain
+<variablelist>
+<varlistentry>
+<term><userinput>--with-root-prefix=""</userinput></term>
+<listitem><para>Certain
programs (such as the e2fsck program) are considered essential programs.
When, for example, <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> isn't
mounted, these essential programs have to be available. They belong in
@@ -46,10 +48,14 @@ directories like <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
to E2fsprogs's configure, the programs are placed in the
<filename class="directory">/usr</filename> directory, which is not what we
want.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
-<listitem><para><userinput>--enable-elf-shlibs</userinput>: This creates
+<varlistentry>
+<term><userinput>--enable-elf-shlibs</userinput></term>
+<listitem><para>This creates
the shared libraries which some programs in this package use.</para></listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>