From 2645ec62a379849fbb2a5905dd33aca6d238f677 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Archaic Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:49:44 +0000 Subject: Several minor wording changes in chapter 6 (matt). git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@6249 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/glibc.xml | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter06/glibc.xml') diff --git a/chapter06/glibc.xml b/chapter06/glibc.xml index ab854be82..0420f91bc 100644 --- a/chapter06/glibc.xml +++ b/chapter06/glibc.xml @@ -110,8 +110,9 @@ Certain optimization settings are also known to be a factor here. If you have mounted the LFS partition with the -noatime option, the atime -test will fail. This is not critical. +noatime option, the atime test will +fail. As mentioned in , do not use the +noatime option while building LFS. When running on older and slower hardware, some tests can fail because of test timeouts being exceeded. @@ -189,10 +190,10 @@ on the threading API (applicable to NPTL as well): /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/localtime -The /etc/nsswitch.conf file needs to be -created because, although Glibc provides defaults when this file is -missing or corrupt, the Glibc defaults do not work well with -networking. The time zone also needs to be set up. +The /etc/nsswitch.conf file needs to be created +because, although Glibc provides defaults when this file is missing or corrupt, +the Glibc defaults do not work well in a networked environment. The time zone +also needs to be configured. Create a new file /etc/nsswitch.conf by running the following: @@ -228,8 +229,8 @@ running: cp --remove-destination /usr/share/zoneinfo/[xxx] \ /etc/localtime -Replace [xxx] with the name of the time zone that the -tzselect provided (e.g., Canada/Eastern). +Replace [xxx] with the name of the time zone +that tzselect provided (e.g., Canada/Eastern). The meaning of the cp option: -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf