Changeset b7cea6e

Timestamp:

01/02/2003 10:01:49 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

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, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 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, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, 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:

30a2c84

Parents:

f991b54

Message:

reworded some of the text

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2268 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/glibc-inst.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

chapter06/glibc-inst.xml

@@ -2 +2 @@
 
 <sect2>
-<title>Installation of Glibc</title>
+<title>Glibc installation</title>
 
 <para>Before starting to install glibc, you must cd into the
@@ -19 +19 @@
 is putting your system at very high risk.</para>
 
-<para>We'll start by applying a patch to Glibc that fixes a few
-things:</para>
+<para>We'll start by applying a patch to Glibc that fixes the following:</para>
 
 <itemizedlist>
@@ -60 +59 @@
 
 <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 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. Let's
-create such a directory and make it our CWD (Current Working
-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, configure Glibc.</para>
+<para>Next, prepare Glibc to be compiled.</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
@@ -78 +75 @@
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>During the configure stage you will see the following warning:</para>
+<para>During this stage you will see the following warning:</para>
 
 <blockquote><screen>configure: warning:
@@ -128 +125 @@
 make install</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>Locales aren't installed by default so we install them now. Locales
-are used by Glibc to make your Linux system talk in a different language
-such as your native tongue.</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>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen></para>
@@ -140 +138 @@
 file in the glibc-&glibc-version; tree.</para>
 
-<para>To finish off the installation we'll reload Bash so it uses the new
-libnss files. This will get rid of the <emphasis>I have no name!</emphasis>
-message in the command prompt.</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>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>exec /static/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen></para>