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diff --git a/chapter06/gawk.xml b/chapter06/gawk.xml index d25196e41..41df7f965 100644 --- a/chapter06/gawk.xml +++ b/chapter06/gawk.xml @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Gawk</title> -<para>Under some circumstances, Gawk-&gawk-version; attempts to free a chunk -of memory that was not allocated. This bug is fixed by the following patch:</para> +<para>Patch Gawk to fix a bug which causes it to segfault when invoked on a +non-existent file:</para> <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gawk-segfault-patch;</userinput></screen> @@ -37,15 +37,11 @@ of memory that was not allocated. This bug is fixed by the following patch:</par <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen> -<para>Due to a bug in the <command>./configure</command> script, Gawk fails -to detect certain aspects of locale support in glibc. This -bug leads to, e.g., Gettext testsuite failures. Work around this issue -by appending the missing macro definitions to <filename>config.h</filename>:</para> +<para>The configure script doesn't detect some functionality correctly. The +following commands correct this problem:</para> -<screen><userinput>cat >>config.h <<"EOF" -<literal>#define HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET 1 -#define HAVE_LC_MESSAGES 1</literal> -EOF</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput>echo "#define HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET 1" >> config.h +echo "#define HAVE_LC_MESSAGES 1" >> config.h</userinput></screen> <para>Compile the package:</para> |