Changeset 46405a5b

Timestamp:

11/18/2022 11:30:12 PM (17 months ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl (Moody) <thomas@…>

Branches:

multilib

Children:

777f469, f0cbef54

Parents:

8d5322e (diff), 651f491 (diff)
Note: this is a merge changeset, the changes displayed below correspond to the merge itself.
Use the (diff) links above to see all the changes relative to each parent.

Message:

Automatic merge of trunk into multilib

Location:

chapter08

Files:

• bc.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• binutils.xml (modified) (8 diffs)
• readline.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• tcl.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter08/bc.xml

@@ -60 +60 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>Omit parts of the test suite that won't work
-          without a GNU bc present.</para>
+          until the bc program has been installed.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

chapter08/binutils.xml

@@ -99 +99 @@
         <term><parameter>--enable-gold</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Build the gold linker and install it as ld.gold (along side the
+          <para>Build the gold linker and install it as ld.gold (alongside the
           default linker).</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -137 +137 @@
         <term><parameter>--with-system-zlib</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Use the installed zlib library rather than building the
+          <para>Use the installed zlib library instead of building the
           included version.</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -162 +162 @@
           class="directory">/usr</filename> is not required. <filename
           class="directory">$(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias)</filename> would be
-          used if the system was used to cross-compile (for example, compiling a
+          used if the system were used to cross-compile (for example, compiling a
           package on an Intel machine that generates code that can be executed
           on PowerPC machines).</para>
@@ -183 +183 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="test">grep '^FAIL:' $(find -name '*.log')</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Twelve tests fail in the gold testsuite when the
+    <para>Twelve tests fail in the gold test suite when the
     <option>--enable-default-pie</option> and
     <option>--enable-default-ssp</option> options are passed to GCC.
@@ -198 +198 @@
     assured of the correctness of gas, invoke
     <command>make check-gas</command> to run gas testsuite separately and
-    all tests should pass. Three gprofng tests result
-    <literal>ERROR</literal> and they are counted as
+    all tests should pass. Three gprofng tests yield the 
+    <literal>ERROR</literal> result, and they are counted as
     <literal>UNRESOLVED</literal> in the summary.</para>
 
@@ -292 +292 @@
         <term><command>elfedit</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Updates the ELF header of ELF files</para>
+          <para>Updates the ELF headers of ELF files</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils elfedit">
             <primary sortas="b-elfedit">elfedit</primary>
@@ -312 +312 @@
         <term><command>gprofng</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Gather and analyze performance data</para>
+          <para>Gathers and analyzes performance data</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils gprofng">
             <primary sortas="b-gprofng">gprofng</primary>
@@ -345 +345 @@
         <term><command>ld.bfd</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Hard link to <command>ld</command></para>
+          <para>A hard link to <command>ld</command></para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ld.bfd">
             <primary sortas="b-ld.bfd">ld.bfd</primary>

chapter08/readline.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
     <title/>
 
-    <para>The Readline package is a set of libraries that offers command-line
+    <para>The Readline package is a set of libraries that offer command-line
     editing and history capabilities.</para>
 
@@ -62 +62 @@
 
      <variablelist>
-      <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
+      <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
 
       <varlistentry>
@@ -68 +68 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>This option tells Readline that it can find the termcap
-          library functions in the curses library, rather than a separate
-          termcap library. It allows generating a correct
+          library functions in the curses library, not a separate
+          termcap library. This will generate the correct
           <filename>readline.pc</filename> file.</para>
         </listitem>

chapter08/tcl.xml

@@ -28 +28 @@
     <para>The <application>Tcl</application> package contains the Tool Command Language,
     a robust general-purpose scripting language. The <application>Expect</application> package
-    is written in the <application>Tcl</application> language.</para>
+    is written in <application>Tcl</application> (pronounced "tickle").</para>
 
     <segmentedlist>
@@ -46 +46 @@
 
     <para>This package and the next two (Expect and DejaGNU) are
-    installed to support running the test suites for binutils and GCC and other
+    installed to support running the test suites for Binutils, GCC and other
     packages.  Installing three packages for testing purposes may seem
     excessive, but it is very reassuring, if not essential, to know that the
@@ -88 +88 @@
 
     <para>The various <quote>sed</quote> instructions after the
-    <quote>make</quote> command removes references to the build directory from
-    the configuration files and replaces them with the install directory.
-    This is not mandatory for the remainder of LFS, but may be needed in case a
+    <quote>make</quote> command remove references to the build directory from
+    the configuration files and replace them with the install directory.
+    This is not mandatory for the remainder of LFS, but may be needed if a
     package built later uses Tcl.</para>