patch explanation

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@831 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

chapter05/shellutils-inst.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 <title>Installation of Sh-utils</title>
 
 <para>Before Sh-utils is installed, the sh-utils patch file needs 
-to be unpacked.</para>
+to be unpacked.  This patch file is necessary to avoid a conflict of
+variable names with glibc when compiling and linking statically.<</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../sh-utils-&sh-utils-version;.patch &amp;&amp;</userinput>
 <userinput>./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr --disable-nls &amp;&amp;</userinput>

chapter06/findutils-inst.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 <title>Installing Findutils</title>
 
 <para>Before Findutils is installed the findutils patch file has 
-to be unpacked.</para>
+to be unpacked.  This patch is to fix some compliation errors by
+avoiding a variable conflict and changing some bad syntax.</para>
 
 <para>Install Findutils by running the following commands:</para>