Changeset ac88e44 for chapter06

Timestamp:

11/09/2016 07:48:02 PM (7 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, 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:

a9fb13a3

Parents:

98a9662e

Message:

Update to vim-8.0.069.
Update to tzdata-2016i.
Update to file-5.29.
Update to flex-2.6.2.
Update to linux-4.8.6.
Update to util-linux-2.29.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11142 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

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

chapter06/flex.xml

@@ -42 +42 @@
     <title>Installation of Flex</title>
 
-    <para>Prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
+    <para>The build procedure assumes the <application>help2man</application>
+    program is available to create a man page from the executable --help option.
+    This is not present, so we use an environment variable to skip this process.  
+    Now, prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/flex-&flex-version;</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">HELP2MAN=/tools/bin/true \
+./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/flex-&flex-version;</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
@@ -53 +57 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>There is one known test failure.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>