diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 49877c044..3d009389e 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log. -October 19, 2005 [manuel]: Updated the acknowledgements -to current trunk version. Ported also some redaction changes in preface -and chapter01 pages. Moved chapter02 to part II. Added -v -switches. +October 19, 2005 [manuel]: Updated the acknowledgements to +current trunk version. Ported some redaction changes in preface and chapter01 +pages. Moved chapter02 to part II. Added -v switches. Ported several typos +and redaction fixes from trunk October 19, 2005 [manuel]: Updated the stylesheets, Makefile and related files to current trunk versions. diff --git a/chapter05/glibc.xml b/chapter05/glibc.xml index b950a7e38..d5a044b4d 100644 --- a/chapter05/glibc.xml +++ b/chapter05/glibc.xml @@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ unset them when building Glibc. the method suggested in this book puts the stability of the system at risk. -Glibc has two tests which fail when the running kernel is 2.6.11.x The -problem has been determined to be with the tests themselves, not with the libc -nor the kernel. If you plan to run the testsuite apply this patch: +Glibc has two tests which fail when the running kernel is 2.6.11 or later. +The problem has been determined to be with the tests themselves, not with the C +library or the kernel. If you plan to run the testsuite apply this patch: patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-testfix-patch; diff --git a/chapter05/introduction.xml b/chapter05/introduction.xml index 4438bd7a6..6f82905a1 100644 --- a/chapter05/introduction.xml +++ b/chapter05/introduction.xml @@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ host production directories. Since the packages compiled here are temporary, we do not want them to pollute the soon-to-be LFS system. -Before issuing the build instructions for a package, the package +Before issuing the build instructions for a package, the package should be unpacked as user lfs, and a cd into the created directory should be performed. The build -instructions assume that the bash shell is in use. +instructions assume that the bash shell is in use. Several of the packages are patched before compilation, but only when the patch is needed to circumvent a problem. A patch is often @@ -46,13 +46,12 @@ deprecated, but not invalid, use of the C or C++ syntax. C standards change fairly often, and some packages still use the older standard. This is not a problem, but does prompt the warning. -After installing each package, delete its source and build +After installing each package, delete its source and build directories, unless specifically instructed otherwise. Deleting the -sources saves space and prevents mis-configuration when the same -package is reinstalled later. Only three of the packages need to -retain the source and build directories in order for their contents to -be used by later commands. Pay special attention to these -reminders. +sources prevents mis-configuration when the same package is reinstalled later. +Only three of the packages need to retain the source and build directories in +order for their contents to be used by later commands. Pay special attention to +these reminders. Check one last time that the LFS environment variable is set up properly: diff --git a/chapter06/bash.xml b/chapter06/bash.xml index 07534395a..e70c37d63 100644 --- a/chapter06/bash.xml +++ b/chapter06/bash.xml @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ following patch resolves this problem: --with-installed-readline -This options tells Bash to use the +This option tells Bash to use the readline library that is already installed on the system rather than using its own readline version. diff --git a/chapter06/coreutils.xml b/chapter06/coreutils.xml index cf6f5a982..28c55e376 100644 --- a/chapter06/coreutils.xml +++ b/chapter06/coreutils.xml @@ -80,17 +80,19 @@ groups: make install -Move programs to the proper locations: +Move programs to the locations specified by the FHS: -mv -v /usr/bin/{[,basename,cat,chgrp,chmod,chown,cp,dd,df} /bin -mv -v /usr/bin/{date,echo,false,head,hostname,install,ln} /bin -mv -v /usr/bin/{ls,mkdir,mknod,mv,pwd,rm,rmdir,sync} /bin -mv -v /usr/bin/{sleep,stty,test,touch,true,uname} /bin +mv -v /usr/bin/{cat,chgrp,chmod,chown,cp,date,dd,df,echo} /bin +mv -v /usr/bin/{false,hostname,ln,ls,mkdir,mknod,mv,pwd,rm} /bin +mv -v /usr/bin/{rmdir,stty,sync,true,uname} /bin mv -v /usr/bin/chroot /usr/sbin -Finally, create a symlink to be FHS-compliant: +Some of the scripts in the LFS-Bootscripts package depend on +head and sleep. As +/usr may not be available during the +early stages of booting, those binaries need to be on the root partition: -ln -sv ../../bin/install /usr/bin +mv -v /usr/bin/{head,sleep} /bin diff --git a/chapter06/findutils.xml b/chapter06/findutils.xml index 2290d4f3c..875111922 100644 --- a/chapter06/findutils.xml +++ b/chapter06/findutils.xml @@ -36,9 +36,16 @@ Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make and Sed ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \ --localstatedir=/var/lib/locate -The localstatedir option above changes the -location of the locate database to be in /var/lib/locate, which is FHS-compliant. +The meaning of the configure options: + + + +--localstatedir +This option changes the location of the locate +database to be in /var/lib/locate, which +is FHS-compliant. + + Compile the package: diff --git a/chapter06/flex.xml b/chapter06/flex.xml index b1b94ee65..7d4b30796 100644 --- a/chapter06/flex.xml +++ b/chapter06/flex.xml @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ chmod -v 755 /usr/bin/lex Installed programs Installed library -flex, lex +flex and lex libfl.a diff --git a/chapter06/gzip.xml b/chapter06/gzip.xml index 2dd8f475c..1730df998 100644 --- a/chapter06/gzip.xml +++ b/chapter06/gzip.xml @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ zegrep, zfgrep, zforce, zgrep, zless, zmore, and znew zcat -Uncompresses the given gzipped files to standard output +Decompresses the given gzipped files to standard output zcat diff --git a/chapter06/linux-libc-headers.xml b/chapter06/linux-libc-headers.xml index 06029e08b..4d5344cc3 100644 --- a/chapter06/linux-libc-headers.xml +++ b/chapter06/linux-libc-headers.xml @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ find /usr/include/{asm,linux} -type f -exec chmod -v 644 {} \; /usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h -The Linux headers API +The Linux API headers /usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h diff --git a/chapter06/perl.xml b/chapter06/perl.xml index 33f28574d..dc7b2158a 100644 --- a/chapter06/perl.xml +++ b/chapter06/perl.xml @@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ prepare Perl for compilation with: -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" -This corrects an error in the way that the perldoc -command invokes the less program. +This corrects an error in the way that +perldoc invokes the less program. + diff --git a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml index 1390081e8..0975324c5 100644 --- a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml +++ b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml @@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ cdrom:x:15: EOF The created groups are not part of any standard—they are groups -decided on in part by the requirements of the Udev configuration in the next -section, and in part by common convention employed by a number of existing Linux +decided on in part by the requirements of the Udev configuration in this +chapter, and in part by common convention employed by a number of existing Linux distributions. The Linux Standard Base (LSB, available at ) recommends only that, besides the group root with a Group ID (GID) of 0, a group bin with diff --git a/chapter06/shadow.xml b/chapter06/shadow.xml index eaf6591a5..9dbac598e 100644 --- a/chapter06/shadow.xml +++ b/chapter06/shadow.xml @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed ./configure --libdir=/lib --enable-shared -Remove the installation of the groups program, and its man page as -Coreutils provides a better version: +Disable the installation of the groups program and +its man page, as Coreutils provides a better version: sed -i 's/groups$(EXEEXT) //' src/Makefile sed -i '/groups/d' man/Makefile diff --git a/chapter06/texinfo.xml b/chapter06/texinfo.xml index 9fc61bde0..23fe0cdf3 100644 --- a/chapter06/texinfo.xml +++ b/chapter06/texinfo.xml @@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ device-independent file that can be printed texi2pdf -Create a PDF file from a Texinfo file. +Used to format the given Texinfo document into a +Portable Document Format (PDF) file texi2pdf diff --git a/chapter06/vim.xml b/chapter06/vim.xml index 74f7be6e3..0e25d6013 100644 --- a/chapter06/vim.xml +++ b/chapter06/vim.xml @@ -38,16 +38,14 @@ for suggested installation instructions. First, unpack both vim-&vim-version;.tar.bz2 and (optionally) vim-&vim-version;-lang.tar.gz archives into the -same directory. Then, change the default locations of the -vimrc and gvimrc -configuration files to vimrc configuration file to /etc: -echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' >> src/feature.h -echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' >> src/feature.h +echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' >> src/feature.h -Vim has a security vulnerability already addressed upstream. The -following patch fixes the problem: +Vim has two known security vulnerabilities that have already been +addressed upstream. The following patch fixes the problems: patch -Np1 -i ../&vim-security_fix-patch; @@ -55,13 +53,19 @@ following patch fixes the problem: ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte -The optional but highly recommended ---enable-multibyte switch includes support for -editing files in multibyte character encodings into -vim. This is needed if using a locale with -a multibyte character set. This switch is also helpful to be able to -edit text files initially created in Linux distributions like Fedora -Core that use UTF-8 as a default character set. +The meaning of the configure options: + + + +--enable-multibyte +This optional but highly recommended switch enables support for +editing files in multibyte character encodings. This is needed if using a +locale with a multibyte character set. This switch is also helpful to be able to +edit text files initially created in Linux distributions like Fedora Core that +use UTF-8 as a default character set. + + + Compile the package: diff --git a/chapter06/zlib.xml b/chapter06/zlib.xml index 3b4b6acb5..fa35e20fc 100644 --- a/chapter06/zlib.xml +++ b/chapter06/zlib.xml @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ make libz -Contains compression and un-compression +Contains compression and decompression functions used by some programs libz diff --git a/chapter08/kernel.xml b/chapter08/kernel.xml index e785f4c02..62ccf9a5d 100644 --- a/chapter08/kernel.xml +++ b/chapter08/kernel.xml @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ we do not recommend this option. It is often better to explore all the configuration menus and create the kernel configuration from scratch. -NPTL requires the kernel to be compiled with GCC-3.x, in this case +NPTL requires the kernel to be compiled with GCC-3.x or later, in this case &gcc-version;. It is not recommended to compile the kernel with GCC-2.95.x, as this causes failures in the Glibc test suite. Normally, this wouldn't be mentioned as LFS doesn't build GCC-2.95.x. Unfortunately, the kernel