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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Module-Init-Tools</title>
+ <para>The Module-Init-Tools source tarball doesn't contain generated
+ man pages. Apply the following patch so that no attempt to generate the
+ man pages is made (such attempts will fail due to a lack of necessary tools
+ in the LFS system):</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&module-init-tools-manpages-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>The testsuite of this package is geared towards the needs of its
Maintainer. The command <command>make check</command> builds a specially
wrapped version of modprobe which is useless for normal operation. To run