Changeset 5a4b3da for chapter06/perl.xml

Timestamp:

11/17/2003 08:32:34 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Jeremy Utley <jeremy@…>

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Children:

05073f6

Parents:

554b366

Message:

Changed Perl Chapter 6 commands to fix perldoc less invocation issue - closes bug 718

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3109 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/perl.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter06/perl.xml

@@ -16 +16 @@
 <para>Prepare Perl for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>If you want more control over the way Perl sets itself up to be
@@ -23 +23 @@
 (sensible) defaults Perl auto-detects, then just use the command listed
 above.</para>
+
+<para>The use of the -Dpager directive above fixes a small problem with the
+perldoc program, due to improper invocation of the less program.</para>
 
 <para>Compile the package:</para>