From a20bfb4974c368cc695108d03dbfbddd423b28d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 05:18:40 +0000
Subject: updated findutils + gawk patch explanations

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2423 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter06/gawk-inst.xml | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter06/gawk-inst.xml')

diff --git a/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml b/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml
index d426e38a3..2c5d72266 100644
--- a/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml
@@ -3,15 +3,36 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of Gawk</title>
 
-<para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
-install it:</para>
+<para>Before installing the Gawk package you have to apply a patch to it
+which fixes the following issues:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Gawk's default location for libexecdir is <filename
+class="directory">$prefix/libexecdir/awk</filename>. This location doesn't
+comply with FHS (FHS never mentions a directory called
+libexecdir).</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>The patch allows us to pass
+<emphasis>--libexecdir</emphasis> to the configure script (without gawk
+tacking on /awk to the end), so that we can use a more appropriate location
+for gawk's libexecdir (<filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> in
+the book).</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>The default data directory for gawk is <filename
+class="directory">$prefix/share/awk</filename>. A package specific
+directory should be named after the package and the version (gawk-3.1.1
+instead of awk) because there may be more than one awk interpreter on a
+system (and more than one version of gawk). The patch changes this to
+<filename class="directory">$prefix/share/gawk-3.1.1</filename> to be more
+correct.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>The patch ensures that this directory (<filename
+class="directory">$prefix/share/gawk-3.1.1</filename>) is removed along
+with its contents on a make uninstall.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gawk-&gawk-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>This patch alters the code that determines the location of the
-libexec directory. The patch will allow us to override it by passing
-<emphasis>--libexecdir</emphasis> to the configure script.</para>
-
 <para>Prepare Gawk to be compiled:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen></para>
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