From 2ccccf7389e260407b17fcca3997d21f2135662f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:28:25 +0000
Subject: Adjusted locale settings for Bash testsuite run and kernel's make
 menuconfig.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8149 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter08/kernel.xml | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter08')

diff --git a/chapter08/kernel.xml b/chapter08/kernel.xml
index 03ca3bd1b..ea7005308 100644
--- a/chapter08/kernel.xml
+++ b/chapter08/kernel.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,26 @@
     packages outside of LFS at <ulink
     url="&blfs-root;view/svn/longindex.html#kernel-config-index"/>:</para>
 
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>make menuconfig</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>make LANG=<replaceable>&lt;host_LANG_value&gt;</replaceable> LC_ALL= menuconfig</userinput></screen>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The meaning of the make parameters:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>LANG=&lt;host_LANG_value&gt; LC_ALL=</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This establishes the locale setting to the one used on the host.
+          This is needed for a proper menuconfig ncurses interface line
+          drawing on UTF-8 linux text console.</para>
+
+          <para>Be sure to replace <replaceable>&lt;host_LANG_value&gt;</replaceable>
+          by the value of the <envar>$LANG</envar> variable from your host.
+          If not set, you could use also the host's value of <envar>$LC_ALL</envar>
+          or <envar>$LC_CTYPE</envar>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
 
     <para>Alternatively, <command>make oldconfig</command> may be more
     appropriate in some situations. See the <filename>README</filename>
@@ -143,9 +162,9 @@ cp -r Documentation/* /usr/share/doc/linux-&linux-version;</userinput></screen>
       <para>The headers in the system's
       <filename class="directory">include</filename> directory should
       <emphasis>always</emphasis> be the ones against which Glibc was compiled,
-      that is, the sanitised headers from the Linux kernel tarball.
-      Therefore, should <emphasis>never</emphasis> be replaced by the raw kernel
-      headers or if upgrading the kernel.</para>
+      that is, the sanitised headers from this Linux kernel tarball.
+      Therefore, thay should <emphasis>never</emphasis> be replaced by either
+      the raw kernel headers or any other kernel sanitized headers.</para>
     </warning>
 
   </sect2>
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