Changeset 02cf479 for BOOK/cross-tools/common/pkg-config-lite.xml

Timestamp:

Jun 3, 2014, 12:02:13 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

Chris Staub <chris@…>

Branches:

clfs-3.0.0-systemd, master, systemd

Children:

7eba377

Parents:

f742599

Message:

Updated text in pkg-config-lite for cross-tools

File:

• BOOK/cross-tools/common/pkg-config-lite.xml (modified) (1 diff)

BOOK/cross-tools/common/pkg-config-lite.xml

@@ -53 +53 @@
         <term><parameter>--host=${CLFS_TARGET}</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>This option makes sure the installation includes the proper
-          <command>{$CLFS_TARGET}-pkg-config</command> to be detected and used
-          when cross-compiling some tools in the temporary system and boot
-          chapter.</para> 
+          <para>Several packages that we will cross-compile later will try to
+          search for <command>${CLFS_TARGET}-pkg-config</command>. Setting
+          this option ensures that Pkg-config-lite will create a hard
+          link in <filename class="directory">/cross-tools/bin</filename> with
+          this name, so that it will be used instead of any similarly-named
+          program that might exist on the host.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>