Changeset 4114088 for chapter06/man-inst.xml

Timestamp:

08/31/2003 09:52:02 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>

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Children:

7a058b8

Parents:

e667f58

Message:

Adding more missing markup, and rewording a few paragraphs.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2710 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/man-inst.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter06/man-inst.xml

@@ -4 +4 @@
 <title>Installation of Man</title>
 
-<para>There are three patches for Man. The first patch comments out one of the
-lines in the <filename>man.conf</filename> file (MANPATH /usr/man) to
-prevent redundant results when using programs such as
-<userinput>whatis</userinput>:</para>
+<para>We'l make three adjustments to the sources of Man.</para>
+ 
+ <para>The first patch comments out the "MANPATH /usr/man" line in the
+ <filename>man.conf</filename> file to prevent redundant results when using
+ programs such as <userinput>whatis</userinput>:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-manpath-patch-version;-manpath.patch</userinput></screen></para>
@@ -17 +18 @@
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-pager-patch-version;-pager.patch</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>The last patch prevents problem when man pages not formatted
-with more than 80 columns are used in conjunction with recent releases
-of <userinput>groff</userinput>:</para>
+<para>The third and last patch prevents a problem when man pages not formatted
+with more than 80 columns are used in conjunction with recent releases of
+<userinput>groff</userinput>:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-80cols-patch-version;-80cols.patch</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>The paths to some programs are written into man's files.
-Unfortunately, the configure script picks the last location in PATH
+<para>The paths to some programs are hard-wired into Man's executables.
+Unfortunately, the configuration script picks the last location in PATH
 rather than the first place a program is found. By appending
 <emphasis>/usr/bin:/bin</emphasis> to PATH for the
-<userinput>./configure</userinput> command, we ensure that man doesn't
+<userinput>./configure</userinput> command, we ensure that Man doesn't
 use the programs in the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename>
 directory.</para>