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each program in a package, please refer to the corresponding section in
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<xref linkend="appendixa"/>.</para>
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+<para>The build instructions assume that you are using the bash shell. There
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+is also a general expectation that you have already unpacked the sources for a
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+package and have performed a <userinput>cd</userinput> into the source
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+directory before issuing the build commands.</para>
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<para>Several of the packages are patched before compilation, but only when
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the patch is needed to circumvent a problem. Often the patch is needed in
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both this and the next chapter, but sometimes in only one of them. Therefore,
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Greg Schafer