Author: jim
Date: 2006-07-22 13:45:25 -0600 (Sat, 22 Jul 2006)
New Revision: 2071
Modified:
/
branches/clfs-2.0/BOOK/final-system/common/man.xml
Log:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (orig r2191): jciccone | 2006-07-22 11:38:49 -0700
Added 2 seds to man.xml; the first makes configure detect the paths of
programs in $CLFS and the second strips $CLFS out of conf_script.
Property changes on:
___________________________________________________________________
Name: svk:merge
- b6734a72-470d-0410-b049-f317dca95413:/:2190
+ b6734a72-470d-0410-b049-f317dca95413:/:2191
Modified: branches/clfs-2.0/BOOK/final-system/common/man.xml
===================================================================
--- branches/clfs-2.0/BOOK/final-system/common/man.xml 2006-07-22 19:45:16 UTC
(rev 2070)
+++ branches/clfs-2.0/BOOK/final-system/common/man.xml 2006-07-22 19:45:25 UTC
(rev 2071)
@@ -27,13 +27,16 @@
<para os="a">A few adjustments need to be made to the sources of
Man.</para>
- <para os="b">First, a <command>sed</command> substitution is
- needed to add the <option>-R</option> switch to the
- <envar>PAGER</envar> variable so that escape sequences are
- properly handled by Less:</para>
+ <para os="b">First, a <command>sed</command> substitution is needed to
+ modify <command>configure</command>'s default search path for executables.
+ It cycles through the values in <envar>PREPATH</envar> until it finds the
+ program it is looking for. The <option>-R</option> switch is added to the
+ <envar>PAGER</envar> variable so that escape sequences are properly handled
+ by Less:</para>
<screen os="c"><userinput>cp configure{,.orig}
-sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@&[EMAIL PROTECTED]' configure.orig >
configure</userinput></screen>
+sed -e "/PREPATH=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@=\"$(eval echo
${CLFS}/{,usr/}{sbin,bin})\"@g" \
+ -e '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@&[EMAIL PROTECTED]' configure.orig >
configure</userinput></screen>
<para os="d">Another <command>sed</command> substitution comments out the
<quote>MANPATH /usr/man</quote> line in the <filename>man.conf</filename>
@@ -66,19 +69,28 @@
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- <para os="k">Build makemsg using the hosts gcc. It is executed during the
build</para>
+ <para os="k">Configure was modified to look in <filename
+ class="directory">${CLFS}</filename> for the paths of helper
+ programs. Right now all of the programs have <filename
+ class="directory">${CLFS}</filename> as a prefix. Remove that prefix
+ with the following command:</para>
-<screen os="l"><userinput>gcc src/makemsg.c -o src/makemsg</userinput></screen>
+<screen os="l"><userinput>cp conf_script{,.orig}
+sed "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@" conf_script.orig >
conf_script</userinput></screen>
- <para os="m">Compile the package:</para>
+ <para os="m">Build makemsg using the hosts gcc. It is executed during the
build:</para>
-<screen os="n"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
+<screen os="n"><userinput>gcc src/makemsg.c -o src/makemsg</userinput></screen>
- <para os="o">Install the package:</para>
+ <para os="o">Compile the package:</para>
-<screen os="p"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>
+<screen os="p"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
- <note os="q">
+ <para os="q">Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen os="r"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>
+
+ <note os="s">
<para>If you will be working on a terminal that does not support
text attributes such as color and bold, you can disable Select
Graphic Rendition (SGR) escape sequences by editing the
@@ -89,14 +101,14 @@
that do not support SGR.</para>
</note>
- <para os="r">If the character set of the locale uses 8-bit characters,
search
+ <para os="t">If the character set of the locale uses 8-bit characters,
search
for the line beginning with <quote>NROFF</quote> in
<filename>/etc/man.conf</filename>, and verify that it matches the
following:</para>
-<screen os="s">NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc</screen>
+<screen os="u">NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc</screen>
- <para os="t">Note that <quote>latin1</quote> should be used even if it is
not
+ <para os="v">Note that <quote>latin1</quote> should be used even if it is
not
the character set of the locale. The reason is that, according to the
specification, <command>groff</command> has no means of typesetting
characters outside International Organization for Standards (ISO) 8859-1
@@ -108,14 +120,14 @@
ormatted result is really in the same encoding as input, and therefore
it is usable as the input for a pager.</para>
- <para os="u">This does not solve the problem of a non-working
+ <para os="w">This does not solve the problem of a non-working
<command>man2dvi</command> program for localized man pages in
non-ISO 8859-1 locales. Also, it does not work with multibyte
character sets. The first problem does not currently have a solution.
The second issue is not of concern because the CLFS installation does
not support multibyte character sets.</para>
- <para os="v">Additional information with regards to the compression of
+ <para os="x">Additional information with regards to the compression of
man and info pages can be found in the BLFS book at
<ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/postlfs/compressdoc.html"/>.</para>
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