Changeset 9dfc02f for chapter06/flex.xml

Timestamp:

05/03/2004 09:28:58 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Zack Winkles <winkie@…>

Branches:

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Children:

5f505ff, c8ba565

Parents:

411ceb8

Message:

Current BE-LFS (but w/ GCC 3.3.3) merged -> 6.0 branch

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3445 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

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

chapter06/flex.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
 <title>Installation of Flex</title>
 
-<para>Prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
+<para>Flex contains several known bugs. Fix these with the following patch:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../flex-&flex-version;-debian-fixes-2.patch</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>The GNU autotools detects that the Flex source code has been modified by the patch,
+and tries to update the man pages to include those changes, but this breaks on many
+systems, and the default pages are fine, so make sure they don't get renegerated:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>touch doc/*.1</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Now prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
@@ -33 +43 @@
 
 <para>To test the results, issue:
-<userinput>make bigcheck</userinput>.</para>
+<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
 
 <para>Now install the package:</para>