Changeset 4d86da9

Timestamp:

03/12/2009 09:06:41 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

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, 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, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

1cdaff9

Parents:

da09a82

Message:

Improve the explanation of the Expect/PTY test in Binutils' instructions. Fixes #2365.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8838 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/binutils.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -42 +42 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Reword the explanation of the Expect tests in Binutils'
+          instructions to clarify what the expected test output is.  Thanks to Chris
+          Staub for the report and patch. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2365">#2365</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Reorder the contents of chapter 7 to flow better. Thanks to
           Chris Staub for the report and suggested order.  Fixes

chapter06/binutils.xml

@@ -43 +43 @@
 
     <para>Verify that the PTYs are working properly inside the chroot
-    environment. Check that everything is set up correctly by performing a
-    simple test:</para>
+    environment by performing a simple test:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">expect -c "spawn ls"</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>If the following message shows up, the chroot environment is not
-    set up for proper PTY operation:</para>
+    <para>This command should output the following:</para>
+
+<screen><computeroutput>spawn ls</computeroutput></screen>
+
+    <para>If, instead, the output includes the message below, then the environment
+    is not set up for proper PTY operation.  This issue needs to be resolved before
+    running the test suites for Binutils and GCC:</para>
 
 <screen><computeroutput>The system has no more ptys.
 Ask your system administrator to create more.</computeroutput></screen>
-
-    <para>This issue needs to be resolved before running the test suites
-    for Binutils and GCC.</para>
 
     <para>Suppress the installation of an outdated