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Gerard Beekmans 22 years ago
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chapter06/glibc-inst.xml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
 
 
 <sect2>
 <sect2>
-<title>Installation of Glibc</title>
+<title>Glibc installation</title>
 
 
 <para>Before starting to install glibc, you must cd into the
 <para>Before starting to install glibc, you must cd into the
 glibc-&glibc-version; directory and unpack glibc-linuxthreads inside
 glibc-&glibc-version; directory and unpack glibc-linuxthreads inside
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ been warned.</para>
 <para>Basically, compiling Glibc in any other way than the book suggests
 <para>Basically, compiling Glibc in any other way than the book suggests
 is putting your system at very high risk.</para>
 is putting your system at very high risk.</para>
 
 
-<para>We'll start by applying a patch to Glibc that fixes a few
-things:</para>
+<para>We'll start by applying a patch to Glibc that fixes the following:</para>
 
 
 <itemizedlist>
 <itemizedlist>
 <listitem><para>It converts all occurrences of <emphasis>$(PERL)</emphasis>
 <listitem><para>It converts all occurrences of <emphasis>$(PERL)</emphasis>
@@ -59,25 +58,23 @@ it.</para></listitem>
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../glibc-&glibc-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../glibc-&glibc-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
 
 
 <para>Glibc will check for the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file
 <para>Glibc will check for the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file
-and abort with an error if the file is missing, so we create it.</para>
+and abort with an error if the file is missing, so we must create it.</para>
 
 
 <para><screen><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen></para>
 <para><screen><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen></para>
 
 
 <para>It is recommended by the Glibc installation documentation to build
 <para>It is recommended by the Glibc installation documentation to build
-Glibc outside of the source directory in a dedicated directory. Let's
-create such a directory and make it our CWD (Current Working
-Directory).</para>
+Glibc outside of the source directory in a dedicated directory.</para>
 
 
 <para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../glibc-build &amp;&amp;
 <para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../glibc-build &amp;&amp;
 cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen></para>
 cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen></para>
 
 
-<para>Next, configure Glibc.</para>
+<para>Next, prepare Glibc to be compiled.</para>
 
 
 <para><screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
 <para><screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen></para>
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen></para>
 
 
-<para>During the configure stage you will see the following warning:</para>
+<para>During this stage you will see the following warning:</para>
 
 
 <blockquote><screen>configure: warning:
 <blockquote><screen>configure: warning:
 *** These auxiliary programs are missing or too old: msgfmt
 *** These auxiliary programs are missing or too old: msgfmt
@@ -127,9 +124,10 @@ time at the end of this chapter.</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>make &amp;&amp;
 <para><screen><userinput>make &amp;&amp;
 make install</userinput></screen></para>
 make install</userinput></screen></para>
 
 
-<para>Locales aren't installed by default so we install them now. Locales
-are used by Glibc to make your Linux system talk in a different language
-such as your native tongue.</para>
+<para>Locales aren't installed when you ran
+<userinput>make install</userinput>, so we have to do that ourselves now.
+Locales are used by Glibc to make your Linux system talk in a different
+language.</para>
 
 
 <para><screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen></para>
 <para><screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen></para>
 
 
@@ -139,9 +137,9 @@ which you need or want. This can be achieved using the localedef
 command. Information on this can be found in the INSTALL
 command. Information on this can be found in the INSTALL
 file in the glibc-&glibc-version; tree.</para>
 file in the glibc-&glibc-version; tree.</para>
 
 
-<para>To finish off the installation we'll reload Bash so it uses the new
-libnss files. This will get rid of the <emphasis>I have no name!</emphasis>
-message in the command prompt.</para>
+<para>To finish off the installation we'll reload Bash so it uses the
+libnss files. This will also get rid of the
+<emphasis>I have no name!</emphasis> message in the command prompt.</para>
 
 
 <para><screen><userinput>exec /static/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen></para>
 <para><screen><userinput>exec /static/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen></para>