lfs-text-updates.patch on Ticket #2442 – Attachment – LFS Trac

trunk/BOOK/chapter01/how.xml

   <para>As an alternative to installing a separate distribution onto your
   machine, you may wish to use the Linux From Scratch LiveCD or a LiveCD from a
   commercial distribution.  The LFS LiveCD works well as a host system,
+  commercial distribution. The LFS LiveCD works well as a host system,
   providing all the tools you need to successfully follow the instructions in
   this book. Unfortunately, development of the LiveCD has not progressed
   recently and it only contains older versions of the source packages and

   number of failing tests. This may happen for several reasons, but the
   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
   developers are aware of and have deemed non-critical. Consult the logs located

   <sect2 role="installation">
     <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>

       <varlistentry>
         <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
           flawlessly. This also implies that it was compiled correctly.

 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's@Sending processes@&amp; configured via /etc/inittab@g' \
     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/' \
        -e 's/mountpoint.1 wall.1/mountpoint.1/' src/Makefile</userinput></screen>

         <term><parameter>--enable-multibyte</parameter></term>
         <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>

 <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>
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">echo '#define YYENABLE_NLS 1' &gt;&gt; config.h</userinput></screen>