Changeset 37e35d2 for chapter08/e2fsprogs.xml

Timestamp:

06/29/2020 07:55:01 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

multilib-10.1

Children:

c4804e8

Parents:

d4fdde6

Message:

Update to new lfs structure

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/multilib@11986 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter08/e2fsprogs.xml (moved) (moved from chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml ) (9 diffs)

chapter08/e2fsprogs.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
     <title/>
 
-    <para>The E2fsprogs package contains the utilities for handling the
+    <para>The e2fsprogs package contains the utilities for handling the
     <systemitem class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem> file system. It also
     supports the <systemitem class="filesystem">ext3</systemitem> and
@@ -35 +35 @@
 
       <seglistitem>
-        <seg>&e2fsprogs-ch6-sbu;</seg>
-        <seg>&e2fsprogs-ch6-du;</seg>
+        <seg>&e2fsprogs-fin-sbu;</seg>
+        <seg>&e2fsprogs-fin-du;</seg>
       </seglistitem>
     </segmentedlist>
@@ -45 +45 @@
     <title>Installation of E2fsprogs</title>
 
-    <para>The E2fsprogs documentation recommends that the package be built in
+    <para>The e2fsprogs documentation recommends that the package be built in
     a subdirectory of the source tree: </para>
 
@@ -51 +51 @@
 cd       build</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Prepare E2fsprogs for compilation:</para>
-
-<!--<screen><userinput remap="configure">LIBS=-L/tools/lib                    \
-CFLAGS=-I/tools/include              \
-CFLAGS=-I/tools/include              \
-PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/tools/lib/pkgconfig \
-../configure - -prefix=/usr           \-->
+    <para>Prepare e2fsprogs for compilation:</para>
+
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr           \
              --bindir=/bin           \
@@ -68 +63 @@
 
     <variablelist>
-      <title>The meaning of the environment variable and configure options:</title>
-<!--
-      <varlistentry>
-        <term><parameter>PKG_CONFIG_PATH, LIBS, CFLAGS</parameter></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>These variables enable e2fsprogs to be built using the 
-          <xref linkend="ch-tools-util-linux"/> package built earlier.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
--->
+      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+
       <varlistentry>
         <term><parameter>--with-root-prefix=""</parameter> and
@@ -88 +75 @@
           like <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and <filename
           class="directory">/sbin</filename>. If this option is not passed
-          to E2fsprogs' configure, the programs are installed into the
+          to configure, the programs are installed into the
           <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> directory.</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -104 +91 @@
         <term><parameter>--disable-*</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>This prevents E2fsprogs from building and installing the
+          <para>This prevents e2fsprogs from building and installing the
           <systemitem class="library">libuuid</systemitem> and
           <systemitem class="library">libblkid</systemitem> libraries, the
           <systemitem class="daemon">uuidd</systemitem> daemon, and the
-          <command>fsck</command> wrapper, as Util-Linux installs more
+          <command>fsck</command> wrapper, as util-linux installs more
           recent versions.</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -118 +105 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
-<!--
-    <para>To set up and run the test suite we need to first link some 
-    libraries from /tools/lib to a location where the test programs look.
-    To run the tests, issue:</para>
--->
 
     <para>To run the tests, issue:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
-<!--ln -sfv /tools/lib/lib{blk,uu}id.so.1 lib -->
-<!--make LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tools/lib check</userinput></screen>-->
-
-    <para>One of the E2fsprogs tests will attempt to allocate 256 MB of memory.
+<!-- This is a ridiculous amount now! And is it still true?
+    <para>One of the e2fsprogs tests will attempt to allocate 256 MB of memory.
     If you do not have significantly more RAM than this, be sure to enable
     sufficient swap space for the test. See <xref
@@ -136 +116 @@
     linkend="ch-partitioning-mounting"/>
     for details on creating and enabling swap space.</para>
-
+-->
+    <para>On a spinning disk, the tests take a little more than 4 SBUs. They
+    can be much shorter on an SSD (down to about 1.5 SBUs).</para>
     <para>Install the package:</para>