From 7da1bffa1e5dfdc369de14a1e4784c7272977fbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Schafer Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:40:57 +0000 Subject: Grub and Inetutils clarifications from list. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2922 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/grub-inst.xml | 6 ++++++ chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml | 9 ++++++--- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter06') diff --git a/chapter06/grub-inst.xml b/chapter06/grub-inst.xml index de889e0d9..f8680e2ae 100644 --- a/chapter06/grub-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/grub-inst.xml @@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ Installation of Grub +This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its default +optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Therefore, if you +have defined any environment variables that override default optimizations, +such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting them when building +Grub. + Grub needs a patch applied that fixes a compile problem with GCC-3.3.1: diff --git a/chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml b/chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml index a3d9e1329..8d1bd72c9 100644 --- a/chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml @@ -28,9 +28,12 @@ the building of the inetutils whois client, which is woefully out of date. Instructions for a better whois client are in the BLFS book. --disable-servers: This disables the -compilation of the various server utilities included as part of the Inetutils -package. Many of these have known security vulnerabilities, and for most there -are better replacements. +installation of the various network servers included as part of the Inetutils +package. These servers are deemed not appropriate in a basic LFS system. Some +are insecure by nature and are only considered safe on trusted networks. More +information can be found at +. Note that better +replacements are available for many of these servers. Compile the package: -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf