From 9a3fa86baea69a1f0eb346a687046ed7567fbfef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:46:04 +0000
Subject: patch explanation added

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@829 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter05/gzip-inst.xml | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'chapter05/gzip-inst.xml')

diff --git a/chapter05/gzip-inst.xml b/chapter05/gzip-inst.xml
index 9b578e42d..56802770f 100644
--- a/chapter05/gzip-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter05/gzip-inst.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of Gzip</title>
 
-<para>Before Gzip is installed, the gzip patch file needs to be unpacked.</para>
+<para>Before Gzip is installed, the gzip patch file needs to be
+unpacked.  This patch file is necessary to avoid a conflict of variable
+names with glibc when compiling and linking statically.</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gzip-&gzip-version;.patch &amp;&amp;</userinput>
 <userinput>./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr &amp;&amp;</userinput>
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