Changeset dcca029 for chapter06/man-inst.xml

Timestamp:

09/25/2003 02:42:16 AM (21 years ago)

Author:

Greg Schafer <greg@…>

Branches:

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Children:

6952b96

Parents:

3a788f0c

Message:

Final batch of fixes for Bug 675 - missing command descriptions.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2881 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/man-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/man-inst.xml

@@ -36 +36 @@
 <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>