Changeset c40a9d0 for introduction/important

Timestamp:

08/17/2005 02:18:47 AM (19 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

4096f25

Parents:

79630dd

Message:

Added installation instructions for cm-super fonts to TeX; remove reference to /usr/src/ from Chapter 2 - Notes on Building SW

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@4943 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• introduction/important/unpacking.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

introduction/important/unpacking.xml

@@ -26 +26 @@
   instructions.</para>
 
-  <para>While you can keep the source files anywhere you like, we
-  assume that you have unpacked them and unzipped any required patches
-  into <filename>/usr/src</filename>.</para>
+  <para>While you can keep the source files anywhere you like, we assume that
+  you have unpacked the package and changed into the directory created by the
+  unpacking process (the 'build' directory).  We also assume you have
+  uncompressed any required patches and they are in the directory immediately
+  above the 'build' directory.</para>
 
   <para>We can not emphasize strongly enough that you should start from a
@@ -78 +80 @@
     <para>Finally, you sometimes need to be able to unpack patches which are
     generally not in <filename class='extension'>.tar</filename> format. The
-    best way to do this is to copy the patch file to
-    <filename class='directory'>/usr/src</filename> and then run one of the
-    following commands depending on whether the file is a
-    <filename class='extension'>.gz</filename> or
-    <filename class='extension'>.bz2</filename> file:</para>
+    best way to do this is to copy the patch file to parent of the 'build'
+    directory and then run one of the following commands depending on whether
+    the file is a <filename class='extension'>.gz</filename> or <filename
+    class='extension'>.bz2</filename> file:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>gunzip -v patchname.gz