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 </para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>September 24th, 2003 [greg]: Various changes across the board
+addressing Bug 675.</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 8 - Creating the /etc/fstab
 file: Made mounting devpts the default.</para></listitem>

chapter05/binutils-pass1-inst.xml

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 <listitem><para><userinput>LDFLAGS="-all-static"</userinput>: This tells the
 linker that all the Binutils programs should be linked statically. However,
 strictly speaking, <userinput>"-all-static"</userinput> is first passed on to
 the <emphasis>libtool</emphasis> program which then passes
+strictly speaking, <userinput>"-all-static"</userinput> is first passed to the
+<emphasis>libtool</emphasis> program which then passes
 <userinput>"-static"</userinput> on to the linker.</para></listitem>
 </itemizedlist>

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 <para><screen><userinput>cp --remove-destination /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern /etc/localtime </userinput></screen></para>
+<para>The meaning of the option:</para>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>--remove-destination</userinput>: This is needed to
+force removal of the already existing symbolic link. The reason why we copy
+instead of symlink is to cover the situation where <filename>/usr</filename> is
+on a separate partition. This could matter, for example, when booted into single
+user mode.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
 <para>Of course, instead of <emphasis>Canada/Eastern</emphasis>, fill in
 the name of the time zone that the <userinput>tzselect</userinput> script

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6	6	<para>Prepare File for compilation:</para>
7	7
8		<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr ~~--datadir=/usr/share/misc~~</userinput></screen></para>
	8	<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen></para>
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10	10	<para>Compile the package:</para>

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 <para><screen><userinput>PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin ./configure -default -confdir=/etc</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>-default</userinput>: This tells the configure script
+to select a sensible set of default options. For example: only English man
+pages, no message catalogs, man not suid, handle compressed man pages, compress
+cat pages, create cat pages whenever the appropriate directory exists, follow
+FHS by putting cat pages under /var/cache/man provided that that directory
+exists.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para><userinput>-confdir=/etc</userinput>: This tells the
+<userinput>man</userinput> program to look for the <filename>man.conf</filename>
+configuration file in the <filename>/etc</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
 <para>Compile the package:</para>

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 <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
 <para>And install the components belonging in a TeX installation:</para>
+<para>And optionally install the components belonging in a TeX installation:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>The meaning of the make option:</para>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf</userinput>: The TEXMF
+makefile variable holds the location of the root of your TeX tree if, for
+example, you plan to install a TeX package later on.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
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