Changeset 602a01f for chapter10/kernel.xml

Timestamp:

08/30/2020 06:09:09 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

multilib-10.1

Children:

35e5addf

Parents:

7091d59

Message:

Merge changes from trunk to multilib

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/multilib@12041 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter10/kernel.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter10/kernel.xml

@@ -55 +55 @@
     un-tarring.</para>
 
+    <para>There are several ways to configure the kernel options. Usually,
+    This is done through a menu-driven interface, for example:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>make menuconfig</userinput></screen>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The meaning of optional make environment variables:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>LANG=&lt;host_LANG_value&gt; LC_ALL=</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This establishes the locale setting to the one used on the
+          host.  This may be needed for a proper menuconfig ncurses interface
+          line drawing on a UTF-8 linux text console.</para>
+
+          <para>If used, be sure to replace
+          <replaceable>&lt;host_LANG_value&gt;</replaceable> by the value of
+          the <envar>$LANG</envar> variable from your host.  You can
+          alternatively use instead the host's value of <envar>$LC_ALL</envar>
+          or <envar>$LC_CTYPE</envar>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>make menuconfig</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This launches an ncurses menu-driven interface. For other
+          (graphical) interfaces, type <command>make help</command>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist>
+
     <!-- Support for compiling a keymap into the kernel is deliberately removed -->
 
-    <para>Configure the kernel via a menu-driven interface. For general
-    information on kernel configuration see <ulink
+    <para>For general information on kernel configuration see <ulink
     url="&hints-root;kernel-configuration.txt"/>.  BLFS has some information
     regarding particular kernel configuration requirements of packages outside
@@ -194 +225 @@
     </variablelist>
 
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>make menuconfig</userinput></screen>
-
-    <variablelist>
-      <title>The meaning of optional make environment variables:</title>
-
-      <varlistentry>
-        <term><parameter>LANG=&lt;host_LANG_value&gt; LC_ALL=</parameter></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>This establishes the locale setting to the one used on the
-          host.  This may be needed for a proper menuconfig ncurses interface
-          line drawing on a UTF-8 linux text console.</para>
-
-          <para>If used, be sure to replace
-          <replaceable>&lt;host_LANG_value&gt;</replaceable> by the value of
-          the <envar>$LANG</envar> variable from your host.  You can
-          alternatively use instead the host's value of <envar>$LC_ALL</envar>
-          or <envar>$LC_CTYPE</envar>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-    </variablelist>
-
     <para>Alternatively, <command>make oldconfig</command> may be more
     appropriate in some situations. See the <filename>README</filename>