diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index f5eeb8a50..2defa0c1b 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.
+December 7, 2005 [matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of
+them) for all packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the
+report and analysis of affected packages.
+
November 26, 2005 [matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man
pages, the POSIX threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by
the man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).
diff --git a/chapter05/dejagnu.xml b/chapter05/dejagnu.xml
index c2c6a0057..b185c3365 100644
--- a/chapter05/dejagnu.xml
+++ b/chapter05/dejagnu.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed
make install
+To test the results, issue: make check.
+
diff --git a/chapter05/gettext.xml b/chapter05/gettext.xml
index 20ef68519..030c9c2c3 100644
--- a/chapter05/gettext.xml
+++ b/chapter05/gettext.xml
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
--disable-shared
-We do not need to install any of the shared gettext libraries at this
-time, therefore, no need to build them.
+We do not need to install any of the shared gettext libraries at
+this time, therefore there is no need to build them.
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ time, therefore, no need to build them.
make -C lib
make -C src msgfmt
+As only one binary has been compiled, it is not possible to run the
+testsuite without compiling additional support libraries from the Gettext
+package. It is therefore not recommended to attempt to run the testsuite at
+this stage.
+
Install the msgfmt binary:
cp -v src/msgfmt /tools/bin
diff --git a/chapter06/file.xml b/chapter06/file.xml
index 5f3948bf2..f89f7674b 100644
--- a/chapter06/file.xml
+++ b/chapter06/file.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Zlib
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/groff.xml b/chapter06/groff.xml
index 59dd8c90d..a2d8cb7e2 100644
--- a/chapter06/groff.xml
+++ b/chapter06/groff.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ to contain the default paper size. For users in the United States,
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/gzip.xml b/chapter06/gzip.xml
index 1730df998..74d7d7bf9 100644
--- a/chapter06/gzip.xml
+++ b/chapter06/gzip.xml
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ that the new location gets placed into the script:
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/hotplug.xml b/chapter06/hotplug.xml
index 8e6cd6368..bbc9cfe95 100644
--- a/chapter06/hotplug.xml
+++ b/chapter06/hotplug.xml
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ running kernel.
Installation of Hotplug
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the Hotplug package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/iana-etc.xml b/chapter06/iana-etc.xml
index 54b653bd2..38ac0b8de 100644
--- a/chapter06/iana-etc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/iana-etc.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ correct formats for the /etc/protocols and
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/inetutils.xml b/chapter06/inetutils.xml
index abba0f217..dabe959d6 100644
--- a/chapter06/inetutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/inetutils.xml
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ servers.
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/iproute2.xml b/chapter06/iproute2.xml
index 1aea0339d..66d1ea86c 100644
--- a/chapter06/iproute2.xml
+++ b/chapter06/iproute2.xml
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@
+ This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make SBINDIR=/sbin install
diff --git a/chapter06/kbd.xml b/chapter06/kbd.xml
index 4e28dba9c..52e8a734c 100644
--- a/chapter06/kbd.xml
+++ b/chapter06/kbd.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ when compiling with GCC-&gcc-version;:
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/less.xml b/chapter06/less.xml
index a47709ee4..817a6c67e 100644
--- a/chapter06/less.xml
+++ b/chapter06/less.xml
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/man.xml b/chapter06/man.xml
index efc322f64..371985d2e 100644
--- a/chapter06/man.xml
+++ b/chapter06/man.xml
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ class="directory">/etc directory.
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/mktemp.xml b/chapter06/mktemp.xml
index 7dcd5d1f5..ee47463e6 100644
--- a/chapter06/mktemp.xml
+++ b/chapter06/mktemp.xml
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ functions from the system C library.
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/procps.xml b/chapter06/procps.xml
index 7969900f0..4973a7955 100644
--- a/chapter06/procps.xml
+++ b/chapter06/procps.xml
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ Make, and Ncurses
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/psmisc.xml b/chapter06/psmisc.xml
index f09f726b1..ae50c7575 100644
--- a/chapter06/psmisc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/psmisc.xml
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ package.
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/readline.xml b/chapter06/readline.xml
index 53ca9dbd0..970ff05d5 100644
--- a/chapter06/readline.xml
+++ b/chapter06/readline.xml
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ includes other fixes recommended by the Readline author.
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/shadow.xml b/chapter06/shadow.xml
index 2124e55b0..810c90c19 100644
--- a/chapter06/shadow.xml
+++ b/chapter06/shadow.xml
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ find man -name Makefile -exec sed -i '/groups/d' {} \;
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/sysklogd.xml b/chapter06/sysklogd.xml
index 8c3db5c12..fb422e1c8 100644
--- a/chapter06/sysklogd.xml
+++ b/chapter06/sysklogd.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ Sysklogd with Linux 2.6 series kernels
make
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make install
diff --git a/chapter06/sysvinit.xml b/chapter06/sysvinit.xml
index 5e0accc4d..a322e69ec 100644
--- a/chapter06/sysvinit.xml
+++ b/chapter06/sysvinit.xml
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ instead:
make -C src
+This package does not come with a test suite.
+
Install the package:
make -C src install
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 18807ad97..3b3ad8365 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-
-
+
+