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 is best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
 that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
+recommend unsetting or modifying them when building binutils. You have
+been warned.</para>
+recommend unsetting or modifying them when building binutils.</para>
 <para>It is recommended by the Binutils installation documentation to build
 Binutils outside of the source directory. Create the build directory:</para>
+Binutils outside of the source directory:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../binutils-build &amp;&amp;

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 <para>A patch must be applied in order to prevent compilation
+errors. The patch fixes a variable conflict and some bad syntax.
+Issue the following command to apply this patch:</para>
+errors. The patch fixes a variable conflict and some bad syntax:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>

chapter06/flex-inst.xml

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16	16	<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
17	17
18		<para>There are packages which expect to find the flex library
	18	<para>There are packages which expect to find the lex library
19	19	in the <filename>/usr/lib</filename> directory. Create a symlink
20	20	to account for this:</para>

chapter06/gawk-inst.xml

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5	5
6	6	<para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
7		install it~~. Issue the following command to apply the patch~~:</para>
	7	install it:</para>
8	8
9	9	<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gawk-&gawk-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>

chapter06/gcc-inst.xml

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 best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
 that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
+recommend unsetting or modifying them when building GCC. You have
+been warned.</para>
+recommend unsetting or modifying them when building GCC.</para>
 <para>We will be building the C and C++ compilers at this time, so you'll
 …
 <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
 <para>Some packages require that the C++ compiler be installed in the
+<para>Some packages expect the C PreProcessor to be installed in the
 <filename>/lib</filename> and <filename>/usr/lib</filename> directories.
 To honor those packages, create two symlinks:</para>

chapter06/glibc-inst.xml

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 is best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
 that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
+recommend unsetting or modifying them when building Glibc. You have
+been warned.</para>
+recommend unsetting or modifying them when building Glibc.</para>
 <para>Basically, compiling Glibc in any other way than the book suggests
 is putting your system at very high risk.</para>
+is putting your system at a very high risk.</para>
 <para>We'll start by applying a patch to Glibc that fixes the following:</para>
 …
 <filename>malloc/Makefile</filename> file. This is done because Glibc
 can't autodetect the location of perl because the Perl package hasn't been
+installed yet.</para></listitem>
+installed yet. And if Glibc thinks Perl isn't installed, the
+<userinput>mtrace</userinput> perl program won't be installed
+either.</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>It replaces all occurrences of <emphasis>root</emphasis>
 …
 to crash that were linked against Glibc-2.2 or older libraries. Even though
 static binaries have all the necessary parts of Glibc built-in, they still
 rely on one external library: Glibc's NSS libraries. These libraries, among
 other things, tell programs where the system's password database is
+rely on one external library set: Glibc's NSS libraries. These libraries,
+among other things, tell programs where the system's password database is
 (/etc/password, or NIS, or whatever other scheme has been
 configured).</para>
 …
 code is incompatible with the old one. So when Glibc is installed, it will
 install its new NSS libraries and static programs will load these new NSS
 libraries and start to abort with <emphasis>segmentation faults</emphasis>.
 This patch undoes a few of the changes to overcome the problem.</para>
+libraries and start to abort with <emphasis>segmentation fault</emphasis>
+error. This patch undoes a few of the changes to overcome the problem.</para>
 <para>So, if you started chapter 5 with a host system that uses Glibc-2.2.x
+<para>If you started chapter 5 with a host system that uses Glibc-2.2.x
 or older, you must apply the following patch. We will install Glibc again at
 the end of this chapter to remove this patch so you'll have a pristine Glibc
 …
 <para>Glibc will check for the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file
 and abort with an error if the file is missing, so we must create it.</para>
+and abort with an error if the file is missing, so we must create it:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen></para>
 <para>It is recommended by the Glibc installation documentation to build
 Glibc outside of the source directory in a dedicated directory.</para>
+Glibc outside of the source directory in a dedicated directory:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../glibc-build &amp;&amp;
 cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen></para>
 <para>Next, prepare Glibc to be compiled.</para>
+<para>Next, prepare Glibc to be compiled:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>The meaning of the configure options are:</para>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>--disable-profile:</userinput> This disables the
+building of libraries with profiling information. This command may be
+omitted if you plan to do profiling.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para><userinput>--enable-add-ons:</userinput> This enables the
+add-on that we install with Glibc, linuxthreads</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para><userinput>--libexecdir=/usr/bin:</userinput> This will
+cause the pt_chown program to be installed in the /usr/bin
+directory.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
 <para>During this stage you will see the following warning:</para>
 …
 would require you to re-generate the binary files.</para>
-<para>The meaning of the configure options are:</para>
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para><userinput>--disable-profile:</userinput> This disables the
-building of libraries with profiling information. This command may be
-omitted if you plan to do profiling.</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para><userinput>--enable-add-ons:</userinput> This enables the
-add-on that we install with Glibc, linuxthreads</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para><userinput>--libexecdir=/usr/bin:</userinput> This will
-cause the pt_chown program to be installed in the /usr/bin
-directory.</para></listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
 <para>Because Glibc hasn't been installed yet, one of the tests that was
 run by the configure script failed. This test is supposed to test gcc to
 determine whether or not a cross-compiler is installed. However, Glibc
 needs to be installed already to run this test. Since the test failed, the
+configure script automatically assumed we do have a cross-compiler. So,
+we have to override that assumption by explicitly telling Glibc we're not
+cross-compiling.</para>
+configure script automatically assumed we do have a cross-compiler. We have
+to override that assumption by explicitly telling Glibc we're not
+cross-compiling. Not doing this has a couple of unintended side effects,
+such as the timezone files not being installed.</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>echo "cross-compiling = no" &gt; configparms</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>We'll continue with compiling and installing Glibc. The Linuxthreads man
+<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
+<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>We'll continue with installing the package. The Linuxthreads man
 pages are not going to be installed at this point because it requires a
 working Perl installation. We'll install Perl later on in this chapter,
 …
 time at the end of this chapter.</para>
+<para><screen><userinput>make &amp;&amp;
+make install</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
 <para>Locales aren't installed when you ran
 <userinput>make install</userinput>, so we have to do that ourselves now.
 Locales are used by Glibc to make your Linux system talk in a different
 language.</para>
+language:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen></para>
 …
 <para>To finish off the installation we'll reload Bash so it uses the
 libnss files. This will also get rid of the
 <emphasis>I have no name!</emphasis> message in the command prompt.</para>
+<emphasis>I have no name!</emphasis> message in the command prompt:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>exec /static/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen></para>

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 the creation of pty devices so that devpts can manage them itself.</para>
-<para><filename>MAKEDEV</filename> will create devices ranging from hda[1-20]
-to hdh[1-20] and beyond, but keep in mind that you probably won't be able to
-use all of these due to kernel limits on the maximum number of
-partitions.</para>
 </sect2>

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 <para>Since the libaries have been moved to
 <filename>/lib</filename>, a few symlinks are currently pointing
+towards non-existing files. Create the following symlinks to
+account for this:</para>
+towards non-existing files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>ln -sf libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a &amp;&amp;

chapter06/nettools-inst.xml

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 it's up to the kernel to make them available to the system.</para>
-<para>If you intend to accept the default settings, you may skip
-the questions generated by <emphasis>make</emphasis> by runing
-<userinput>yes "" | make</userinput>.</para>
 <para>Compile the package:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>If you intend to accept the default settings, you may skip
+the questions generated by <emphasis>make</emphasis> by runing
+<userinput>yes "" | make</userinput> instead.</para>
 <para>Finish installing the package:</para>
 …
 <para>The <emphasis>update</emphasis> option to <userinput>make</userinput>
 works similarly to the <emphasis>install</emphasis> option, with one
+exception: it doesn't make backups of files it's replacing. One of the
+things net-tools replaces is sh-utils's version of /bin/hostname
+(net-tools's version is far better than sh-utils's version).</para>
+exception: it doesn't make backups of files it's replacing.</para>
 <para>Also, if you decide to reinstall this package at some point in the
 future, a make update won't backup all the files from a previous net-tools
 installation.</para>
+<para>If you decide to reinstall this package at some point in the
+future, a <userinput>make update</userinput> won't backup all the files
+from a previous net-tools installation.</para>
 </sect2>

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 <para><screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>If you want more control over the way perl sets itself up to be
+built, you can run the interactive <userinput>Configure</userinput> script
+instead and modify the way perl is built. If you think you can live with the
+(sensible) defaults perl auto-detects, then just use the command listed
+above.</para>
 <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
 …
 <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
-<para>If you want more control over the way perl sets itself up to be
-built, you can run the interactive <userinput>Configure</userinput> script
-and modify the way perl is built. If you think you can live with the
-(sensible) defaults perl auto-detects, then just use the commands listed
-above.</para>
 </sect2>

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18	18	<para>Finally, complete the installation of this package
19		by moving some of its programs to the appropriate directory:</para>
	19	by moving some of its programs to a more appropriate directory:</para>
20	20
21	21	<para><screen><userinput>mv /usr/bin/{cat,head} /bin</userinput></screen></para>

chapter06/vim-inst.xml

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 <para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
+install it. This patch fixes a compile problem with GCC-3.2. Apply
+the patch by issuing the following command:</para>
+install it. This patch fixes a compile problem with GCC-3.2:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../vim-&vim-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
 …
 <para><screen><userinput>make CPPFLAGS=-DSYS_VIMRC_FILE=\\\"/etc/vimrc\\\"</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>The meaning of the make option is:</para>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>CPPFLAGS=-DSYS_VIMRC_FILE=\\\"/etc/vimrc\\\":</userinput>
+This option above causes vim to look for the
+<filename>/etc/vimrc</filename> file which contains vim's global settings.
+Normally, this file is assumed to be located in <filename
+class="directory">/usr/share/vim</filename>, but we feel that
+<filename class="directory">/etc</filename> is a more logical place for this
+kind of file.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
 <para>The <emphasis>CPPFLAGS</emphasis> option above causes vim to look

chapter06/zlib-inst.xml

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26	26	that you must boot without the <filename>/usr</filename>
27	27	directory, vital system programs will still have access to
28		the library~~. Finish installing the shared library~~:</para>
	28	the library:</para>
29	29
30	30	<para><screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/libz.so.* /lib</userinput></screen></para>

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