Changeset 1612f40 for chapter06

Timestamp:

10/22/2003 10:26:19 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 12.2, 12.2-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/loongarch-12.2, xry111/mips64el, xry111/multilib, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

360e2c4

Parents:

7e55cc4

Message:

Correcting Gawk's patching explanation.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3028 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/gawk-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/gawk-inst.xml

@@ -4 +4 @@
 <title>Installation of Gawk</title>
 
-<para>Before installing the Gawk package you have to apply a patch,
-which fixes the following issues:</para>
+<para>First apply a patch to fix the following issues:</para>
 
 <itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para>Gawk's default location for libexecdir is <filename
-class="directory">$prefix/libexecdir/awk</filename>. This location doesn't
-comply with FHS (which never mentions a directory called
-libexecdir).</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Gawk's default location for some of its executables is
+<filename>$prefix/libexec/awk</filename>. This location doesn't comply
+with the FHS, which never even mentions a directory called
+<filename>libexec</filename>. The patch makes it possible to pass a
+<emphasis>--libexecdir</emphasis> switch to the configure script, so that we
+can use a more appropriate location for the <userinput>grcat</userinput> and
+<userinput>pwcat</userinput> binaries:
+<filename>/usr/bin</filename>.</para></listitem>
 
-<listitem><para>The patch allows us to pass
-<emphasis>--libexecdir</emphasis> to the configure script (without gawk
-tacking on /awk to the end), so that we can use a more appropriate location
-for gawk's libexecdir (<filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> in
-the book).</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Gawk's default data directory is
+<filename>$prefix/share/awk</filename>. But package-specific
+directories should be named using the package name and version number
+(for example: <filename>gawk-7.7.2.</filename>) and not simply the package
+name, as there may be different versions of a package installed on the system.
+The patch changes the name of the data directory to the correct
+<filename>$prefix/share/gawk-&gawk-version;</filename>.</para></listitem>
 
-<listitem><para>The default data directory for gawk is <filename
-class="directory">$prefix/share/awk</filename>. A package specific
-directory should be named using the package and version (like
-gawk-&gawk-version; instead of awk) because there may be more than one awk
-interpreter on a system (and more than one version of gawk). The patch changes
-this to <filename class="directory">$prefix/share/gawk-&gawk-version;</filename>
-to be more correct.</para></listitem>
-
-<listitem><para>The patch ensures that this directory (<filename
-class="directory">$prefix/share/gawk-&gawk-version;</filename>) is removed along
-with its contents on a make uninstall.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>The patch also ensures that this data directory, including its
+contents, is removed on a <emphasis>make uninstall</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
 </itemizedlist>