Changeset ede9b9b for chapter05/coreutils.xml

Timestamp:

02/25/2004 10:04:14 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>

Branches:

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Children:

dd3e8c6

Parents:

e421d2e

Message:

Minor textual shuffles.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3261 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter05/coreutils.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter05/coreutils.xml

@@ -18 +18 @@
 <title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
 
-<para>Coreutils has an issue when compiled against Glibc-&glibc-version;.
-Without the patch below, some of the Coreutils utilities
-(<command>head</command>, <command>tail</command>, <command>sort</command>,
-and others) will reject their traditional syntax which has been in use for
+<para>This package has an issue when compiled against Glibc-&glibc-version;.
+Without the patch below, some of the Coreutils utilities (such as
+(<command>head</command>, <command>tail</command> and <command>sort</command>)
+will reject their traditional syntax, a syntax that has been in use for
 approximately 30 years. This old syntax is so pervasive that compatibility
-should be preserved until the many places where it is used can be updated.
-More details on this are provided in the comments inside the patch itself. Use
-of this patch is by no means compulsory, but not using it means you'll have to
-deal with the consequences yourself: patch the many packages that use the old
-syntax. Therefore, better apply the patch:</para>
+should be preserved until the many places where it is used can be updated. More
+details on this are provided in the comments inside the patch itself. Use of
+this patch is by no means compulsory, but not using it means you'll have to
+deal with the consequences yourself: patch the many packages that still use the
+old syntax. Therefore, better apply the patch:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-posixver-patch;</userinput></screen>