Changeset 524c5e3 for chapter08/perl.xml

Timestamp:

12/09/2022 07:53:16 AM (17 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

xry111/clfs-ng

Children:

f16e611

Parents:

2ef64c4 (diff), 4640b37d (diff)
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Message:

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/trunk' into xry111/clfs-ng

File:

• chapter08/perl.xml (modified) (10 diffs)

chapter08/perl.xml

@@ -47 +47 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
 -->
-    <para>This version of Perl now builds the Compress::Raw::Zlib and
+    <para>This version of Perl builds the Compress::Raw::Zlib and
     Compress::Raw::BZip2 modules. By
     default Perl will use an internal copy of the sources for the build.
@@ -58 +58 @@
     <para>To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can remove the
     <quote>-des</quote> options from the following command and hand-pick the way
-    this package is built. Alternatively, use the command exactly as below to
+    this package is built. Alternatively, use the command exactly as shown below to
     use the defaults that Perl auto-detects:</para>
 
@@ -83 +83 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>This ensures <command>perl</command> knows how to
-          tell packages where they should install their perl modules.</para>
+          tell packages where they should install their Perl modules.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -100 +100 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>Since Groff is not installed yet, <command>Configure</command>
-          thinks that we do not want man pages for Perl.  Issuing these
-          parameters overrides this decision.</para>
+          will not create man pages for Perl.  These
+          parameters override this behavior.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -108 +108 @@
         <term><parameter>-Duseshrplib</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Build a shared libperl needed by some perl modules.</para>
+          <para>Build a shared libperl needed by some Perl modules.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -115 +115 @@
         <term><parameter>-Dusethreads</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Build perl with support for threads.</para>
+          <para>Build Perl with support for threads.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -122 +122 @@
         <term><parameter>-Dprivlib,-Darchlib,-Dsitelib,...</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>These settings define where Perl is looking for installed
+          <para>These settings define where Perl looks for installed
           modules. The LFS editors chose to put them in a directory structure
           based on the Major.Minor version of Perl (&perl-version-min;) which
           allows upgrading Perl to newer Patch levels (&perl-version;) without
-          the need to reinstall all of the modules again.</para>
+          reinstalling all of the modules.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -186 +186 @@
         <term><command>corelist</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>A commandline frontend to Module::CoreList</para>
+          <para>A command line front end to Module::CoreList</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl corelist">
             <primary sortas="b-corelist">corelist</primary>
@@ -251 +251 @@
         <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
-          and can create a tarball from an installed module</para>
+          <para>Shell script for examining installed Perl modules;
+          it can create a tarball from an installed module</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
             <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
@@ -285 +285 @@
           <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
           <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
-          swiss-army language</para>
+          Swiss Army language</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
             <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>