From 4d86da9286eaa05a0d80a69d0c3646317c66f309 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:06:41 +0000
Subject: Improve the explanation of the Expect/PTY test in Binutils'
 instructions. Fixes #2365.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8838 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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 chapter06/binutils.xml | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter06/binutils.xml')

diff --git a/chapter06/binutils.xml b/chapter06/binutils.xml
index 3f3fed95f..19e693415 100644
--- a/chapter06/binutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/binutils.xml
@@ -42,20 +42,21 @@
     <title>Installation of Binutils</title>
 
     <para>Verify that the PTYs are working properly inside the chroot
-    environment. Check that everything is set up correctly by performing a
-    simple test:</para>
+    environment by performing a simple test:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">expect -c "spawn ls"</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>If the following message shows up, the chroot environment is not
-    set up for proper PTY operation:</para>
+    <para>This command should output the following:</para>
+
+<screen><computeroutput>spawn ls</computeroutput></screen>
+
+    <para>If, instead, the output includes the message below, then the environment
+    is not set up for proper PTY operation.  This issue needs to be resolved before
+    running the test suites for Binutils and GCC:</para>
 
 <screen><computeroutput>The system has no more ptys.
 Ask your system administrator to create more.</computeroutput></screen>
 
-    <para>This issue needs to be resolved before running the test suites
-    for Binutils and GCC.</para>
-
     <para>Suppress the installation of an outdated
     <filename>standards.info</filename> file as a newer one is installed later
     on in the Autoconf instructions:</para>
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