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Add clarifying notes for Chapter 5 test suites of Tcl, Expect and Gettext.

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Greg Schafer 22 years ago
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4 changed files with 17 additions and 10 deletions
  1. 1 1
      chapter01/conventions.xml
  2. 5 2
      chapter05/expect-inst.xml
  3. 5 4
      chapter05/gettext-inst.xml
  4. 6 3
      chapter05/tcl-inst.xml

+ 1 - 1
chapter01/conventions.xml

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ bin:x:1:
 </screen>
 </screen>
 
 
 <blockquote><para>This type of section is used mainly when creating 
 <blockquote><para>This type of section is used mainly when creating 
-configuration files. The first command (in bold) tells the system to create 
+configuration files. The first command tells the system to create 
 the file $LFS/etc/group from whatever is typed on the following lines until 
 the file $LFS/etc/group from whatever is typed on the following lines until 
 the sequence EOF is encountered. Therefore, this whole section is generally 
 the sequence EOF is encountered. Therefore, this whole section is generally 
 typed as seen.</para></blockquote>
 typed as seen.</para></blockquote>

+ 5 - 2
chapter05/expect-inst.xml

@@ -32,8 +32,11 @@ libraries, both of which may possibly reside on the host system.</para></listite
 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
 
 
 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
-checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the 
-following command will do so:</para>
+checks to ensure it built correctly. However, the Expect test suite here in
+Chapter 5 is known to experience failures under certain host conditions that
+are not fully understood. Therefore, test suite failures here are not
+surprising, but are not considered critical. Should you choose to run the test
+suite, the following command will do so:</para>
 
 
 <screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
 <screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
 
 

+ 5 - 4
chapter05/gettext-inst.xml

@@ -13,10 +13,11 @@
 
 
 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
 checks to ensure it built correctly. However, the Gettext test suite here in
 checks to ensure it built correctly. However, the Gettext test suite here in
-Chapter 5 is known to cause problems if for instance it finds a Java compiler
-on the host. It also takes a very long time to run and is considered not
-critical to the success of the overall build. We therefore recommend not to run
-it here. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:</para>
+Chapter 5 is known to experience failures under certain host conditions -- for
+example, if it finds a Java compiler on the host. The Gettext test suite takes
+a very long time to run and is not considered critical. Therefore, we don't
+recommend running it here. Should you choose to run it, the following command
+will do so:</para>
 
 
 <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
 <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
 
 

+ 6 - 3
chapter05/tcl-inst.xml

@@ -17,9 +17,12 @@ to know that our most important tools are working properly.</para>
 
 
 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
 
 
-<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of 
-checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the 
-following command will do so:</para>
+<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
+checks to ensure it built correctly. However, the Tcl test suite here in
+Chapter 5 is known to experience failures under certain host conditions that
+are not fully understood. Therefore, test suite failures here are not
+surprising, but are not considered critical. Should you choose to run the test
+suite, the following command will do so:</para>
 
 
 <screen><userinput>TZ=UTC make test</userinput></screen>
 <screen><userinput>TZ=UTC make test</userinput></screen>