Changeset 941fe5c

Timestamp:

10/05/2008 09:14:52 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

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, 6.4, 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:

7187e06

Parents:

a9836bc

Message:

Add explaination of backslash in typography

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8579 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• prologue/typography.xml (modified) (1 diff)

prologue/typography.xml

@@ -21 +21 @@
   otherwise noted in the surrounding text. It is also used in the explanation
   sections to identify which of the commands is being referenced.</para>
+
+  <para>In some cases, a logical line is extended to two or more physical lines
+  with a backslash at the end of the line.</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" ../binutils-2.18/configure \
+  --prefix=/tools --disable-nls --disable-werror</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para>Note that the backslash must be followed by an immediate return.  Other
+  whitespace charaters like spaces or tab characters will create incorrect
+  results.</para>
+
+
+
 
 <screen><computeroutput>install-info: unknown option '--dir-file=/mnt/lfs/usr/info/dir'</computeroutput></screen>