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diff --git a/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml b/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml index 2c5d72266..f4d2dd870 100644 --- a/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml @@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ <sect2> <title>Installation of Gawk</title> -<para>Before installing the Gawk package you have to apply a patch to it +<para>Before installing the Gawk package you have to apply a patch, which fixes the following issues:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>Gawk's default location for libexecdir is <filename class="directory">$prefix/libexecdir/awk</filename>. This location doesn't -comply with FHS (FHS never mentions a directory called +comply with FHS (which never mentions a directory called libexecdir).</para></listitem> <listitem><para>The patch allows us to pass @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ the book).</para></listitem> <listitem><para>The default data directory for gawk is <filename class="directory">$prefix/share/awk</filename>. A package specific -directory should be named after the package and the version (gawk-3.1.1 +directory should be named using the package and version (like gawk-3.1.1 instead of awk) because there may be more than one awk interpreter on a system (and more than one version of gawk). The patch changes this to <filename class="directory">$prefix/share/gawk-3.1.1</filename> to be more |