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21	21	<para>As an alternative to installing a separate distribution onto your
22	22	machine, you may wish to use the Linux From Scratch LiveCD or a LiveCD from a
23		commercial distribution. The LFS LiveCD works well as a host system,
	23	commercial distribution. The LFS LiveCD works well as a host system,
24	24	providing all the tools you need to successfully follow the instructions in
25	25	this book. Unfortunately, development of the LiveCD has not progressed

chapter04/abouttestsuites.xml

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   most likely cause is that the host system does not have the
   <systemitem class="filesystem">devpts</systemitem> file system set up
   correctly. This issue is discussed in greater detail in <xref
   linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/>.</para>
+  correctly. This issue is discussed in greater detail at
+  <ulink url="&lfs-root;/lfs/faq.html#no-ptys"/>.</para>
   <para>Sometimes package test suites will fail, but for reasons which the

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         <term><parameter>--disable-bootstrap</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>For native builds of GCC, the default is to a "bootstrap" build.
           This does not just compile GCC, but compiles it several times. It
           uses the programs compiled in a first round to compile itself a
+          <para>For native builds of GCC, the default is to do a "bootstrap"
+          build. This does not just compile GCC, but compiles it several times.
+          It uses the programs compiled in a first round to compile itself a
           second time, and then again a third time.  The second and third
           iterations are compared to make sure it can reproduce itself

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     <title>Installation of Perl</title>
     <para>First apply a series of patches to address security issues and adapt some
     hard-wired paths to the C library by applying the following patch:</para>
+    <para>First apply the following patch to address security issues and adapt
+    some hard-wired paths to the C library:</para>
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-consolidated-patch;</userinput></screen>

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 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
     <para>The configure system causes bison to be built without support for
+    <para>The configure system causes Bison to be built without support for
     internationalization of error messages if a <command>bison</command>
     program is not already in $PATH.  The following addition will correct
+    program is not already in $PATH. The following addition will correct
     this:</para>

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     src/init.c</userinput></screen>
     <para>A maintained version of the <command>wall</command> program is
     installed later on during the Util-linux-ng installation. Suppress the
     installation of this program and its man page:</para>
+    <para>A maintained version of the <command>wall</command> program was
+    installed earlier by Util-linux-ng. Suppress the installation of Sysvinit's
+    version of this program and its man page:</para>
 <screen><userinput remap="make">sed -i -e 's/utmpdump wall/utmpdump/' \

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         <listitem>
           <para>This switch enables support for editing files in multibyte
           character encodings.  This is needed if using a locale with a
+          character encodings. This is needed if using a locale with a
           multibyte character set. This switch is also helpful to be able
           to edit text files initially created in Linux distributions like
           Fedora Core that use UTF-8 as a default character set.</para>
+          Fedora that use UTF-8 as a default character set.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

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