Changeset 2b138d6 for chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml

Timestamp:

01/11/2003 05:06:14 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

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Message:

Rewrote diffutils + fileutils installation pages, added previously not 'cvs add'ed files

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2310 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml

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+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of Diffutils</title>
 
-<para>Install Diffutils by running the following commands:</para>
+<para>Prepare Diffutils to be compiled:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>LDFLAGS="-static" CPPFLAGS=-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 \
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;./configure --prefix=$LFS/static --disable-nls &amp;&amp;
-make &amp;&amp;
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;./configure --prefix=$LFS/static --disable-nls</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>The meaning of the configure options are:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>LDFLAGS="-static":</userinput> This is the most
+common way to tell a package that all programs should be statically linked.
+This way the <emphasis>LDFLAGS</emphasis> environment variable is set but
+only in the subshell that the <filename>configure</filename> script runs
+in. When <userinput>configure</userinput> is done its job, the
+<emphasis>LDFLAGS</emphasis> variable won't exist
+anymore.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para><userinput>CPPFLAGS=-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2:</userinput>
+The <emphasis>CPPFLAGS</emphasis> variable is a variable that's read by the
+cpp program (C PreProcessor). The value of this variable tells the
+preprocessor to replace every instance of <emphasis>re_max_failures</emphasis>
+it finds with <emphasis>re_max_failures2</emphasis> before handing the source
+file to the compiler itself for compilation. This package has problems
+linking statically on systems that run an older Glibc version and this
+construction fixes that problem.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>Finish off by compiling and installing the package:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>make
 make install</userinput></screen></para>