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-rw-r--r--chapter08/coreutils.xml4
-rw-r--r--chapter08/e2fsprogs.xml3
-rw-r--r--chapter08/procps.xml7
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter08/coreutils.xml b/chapter08/coreutils.xml
index 6c1791327..b8082c830 100644
--- a/chapter08/coreutils.xml
+++ b/chapter08/coreutils.xml
@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@
<para>Suppress a test which on some machines can loop forever:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/test.lock/s/^/#/' gnulib-tests/gnulib.mk</userinput></screen>
-
+<!--
<para>Fix a problem with autoconf-2.70 in an included gnulib .m4 file:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="pre">echo '# deleted' > m4/std-gnu11.m4</userinput></screen>
-
+-->
<para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">autoreconf -fiv
diff --git a/chapter08/e2fsprogs.xml b/chapter08/e2fsprogs.xml
index fc6f897f5..a528f761a 100644
--- a/chapter08/e2fsprogs.xml
+++ b/chapter08/e2fsprogs.xml
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ cd build</userinput></screen>
<para>To run the tests, issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>One test, m_rootdir_acl, is knowm to fail.</para>
<!-- This is a ridiculous amount now! And is it still true?
<para>One of the e2fsprogs tests will attempt to allocate 256 MB of memory.
If you do not have significantly more RAM than this, be sure to enable
@@ -118,6 +120,7 @@ cd build</userinput></screen>
-->
<para>On a spinning disk, the tests take a little more than 4 SBUs. They
can be much shorter on an SSD (down to about 1.5 SBUs).</para>
+
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/chapter08/procps.xml b/chapter08/procps.xml
index 90648638c..35cd2cc99 100644
--- a/chapter08/procps.xml
+++ b/chapter08/procps.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
<para>The Procps-ng package contains programs for monitoring processes.</para>
+ <!-- TODO This note will probably not be needed at the next revision. -->
+ <note><para>This package extracts to the directory procps-3.3.17/,
+ not the expected procps-ng-3.3.17/.</para></note>
+
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
@@ -87,6 +91,9 @@ make check</userinput></screen>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+ <para>Four tests related to pkill are known ot fail due to a problem
+ with tests that were not updated.</para>
+
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>