Changeset fe039b5

Timestamp:

07/06/2020 08:47:01 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

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, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, 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:

3ed6a2d

Parents:

b6c0d12

Message:

Match ncurses chapter 6 to what is done in chapter 8, and add explanations

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11994 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/ncurses.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• general.ent (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -44 +44 @@
     -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>2020-07-06</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Change chapter 6 ncurses so that it matches
+          what is done in chapter 8, and add explanations.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>2020-07-04</para>
       <itemizedlist>

chapter06/ncurses.xml

@@ -121 +121 @@
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
-<!-- TODO: check and document -->
+
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$LFS TIC_PATH=$(pwd)/build/progs/tic install
-ln -s libncursesw.so $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so</userinput></screen>
+echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so</userinput></screen>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The meaning of the install options:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>TIC_PATH=$(pwd)/build/progs/tic</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>We need to pass the path of the just built
+          <command>tic</command> able to run on the building machine, so that
+          the terminal database can be created without errors.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>The <filename>libncurses.so</filename> library is needed by
+          a few packages we will build soon. We create this small linker
+          script, as this is what is done in <xref
+          linkend="chapter-building-system"/>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
 
     <para>Move the shared libraries to the

general.ent

@@ -1 @@
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+<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20200706">
 <!ENTITY short-version   "svn">  <!-- Used below in &blfs-book; 
                                       Change to x.y for release but not -rc releases -->
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development"  or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
 
-<!ENTITY versiond        "20200704-systemd">
+<!ENTITY versiond        "20200706-systemd">
 <!ENTITY short-versiond  "systemd">
 <!ENTITY generic-versiond "systemd"> 
 
-<!ENTITY releasedate     "July 4th, 2020">
+<!ENTITY releasedate     "July 6th, 2020">
 
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "1999-2020"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->