Changeset b540268 for chapter06/kbd.xml

Timestamp:

07/13/2006 03:28:35 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

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Children:

302287c1

Parents:

83f01733

Message:

Moved the executables: nice, find, kbd_mode, openvt, and setfont to /bin. Added --datadir=/lib/kbd to kbd's configure.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7668 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

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

chapter06/kbd.xml

@@ -51 +51 @@
     <para>Prepare Kbd for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>./configure</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>./configure --datadir=/lib/kbd</userinput></screen>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>--datadir=/lib/kbd</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This option puts keyboard layout data in a directory that will
+          always be on the root partition instead of the default <filename
+          class="directory">/usr/share/kbd</filename>.</para>
+       </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
@@ -65 +79 @@
     <note>
       <para>For some languages (e.g., Belarusian) the Kbd package doesn't
-      provide a useful keymap (the stock <quote>by</quote> keymap assumes the
-      ISO-8859-5 encoding, while everybody uses CP1251 instead). Users of such
-      languages have to download working keymaps separately.</para>
+      provide a useful keymap where the stock <quote>by</quote> keymap assumes
+      the ISO-8859-5 encoding, and the CP1251 keymap is normally used. Users of
+      such languages have to download working keymaps separately.</para>
     </note>
+
+    <para>Some of the scripts in the LFS-Bootscripts package depend on
+    <command>kbd_mode</command>, <command>openvt</command>, and
+    <command>setfont</command>.  As <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
+    may not be available during the early stages of booting, those binaries
+    need to be on the root partition:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/{kbd_mode,openvt,setfont} /bin</userinput></screen>
+
+
+
 
   </sect2>