Changeset 0827a1a for chapter06/shadow.xml

Timestamp:

04/19/2020 06:08:50 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

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Children:

2a73970

Parents:

3944e7b

Message:

Fix a wrong hardcoded path in some shadow programs. ticket #4632

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11811 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/shadow.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/shadow.xml

@@ -84 +84 @@
     <para>Prepare Shadow for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-group-name-max-length=32</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">touch /usr/bin/passwd
+./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-group-name-max-length=32</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
 
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>touch /usr/bin/passwd</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>The file <filename>/usr/bin/passwd</filename> needs
+          to exist because its location is harcoded in some programs, and
+          the default location if it does not exist is not right.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><parameter>--with-group-name-max-length=32</parameter></term>