From d6e34158b2e3c0d8ad3e4f951e805aa287565239 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ken Moffat <ken@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:48:40 +0000
Subject: Update module-init-tools, fixes #2127.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8489 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter06/module-init-tools.xml | 19 ++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter06')

diff --git a/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml b/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
index 0a36e2f64..2df4ea164 100644
--- a/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
+++ b/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
@@ -41,18 +41,23 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Module-Init-Tools</title>
 
-    <para>First correct a potential problem when modules are specified
-    using regular expressions:</para>
+    <para>The tarball only contains sgml source for the manpages. The following
+    patch contains the result of processing this through <command>docbook2man</command>
+    (see <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/pst/docbook-utils.html"/>)
+    which we do not build as part of a basic LFS installation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&module-init-modprobe-patch;</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&module-init-manpages-patch;</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Issue the following commands to perform the tests (note that the
-    <command>make distclean</command> command is required to clean up the source
-    tree, as the source gets recompiled as part of the testing process):</para>
+    <para>The testsuite of this package is geared towards the needs of its
+    Maintainer. The command <command>make check</command> builds a specially
+    wrapped version of modprobe which is useless for normal operation. To run
+    this, issue the following commands (note that the <command>make clean</command>
+    command is required to clean up the source tree before recompiling for
+    normal use):</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">./configure
 make check
-make distclean</userinput></screen>
+make clean</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare Module-Init-Tools for compilation:</para>
 
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