Changeset 30f9912 for BOOK

Timestamp:

Jun 3, 2014, 9:36:56 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

Chris Staub <chris@…>

Branches:

clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit, sysvinit

Children:

2b287d4

Parents:

028eff7

git-author:

Chris Staub <chris@…> (06/03/14 21:36:28)

git-committer:

Chris Staub <chris@…> (06/03/14 21:36:56)

Message:

More clarification for toolchain adjustment text

File:

• BOOK/final-system/common/adjusting.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

BOOK/final-system/common/adjusting.xml

@@ -11 +11 @@
   <title>Adjusting the Toolchain</title>
 
-  <para os="a">Now we amend the GCC specs file so that it points to the new
+  <para os="a">Now we adjust GCC's specs so that they point to the new
   dynamic linker. A <command>perl</command> command accomplishes this:</para>
 
@@ -19 +19 @@
      $(dirname $(gcc --print-libgcc-file-name))/specs</userinput></screen>
 
-  <para os="d">It is a good idea to visually inspect the specs file to verify the
-  intended change was actually made.</para>
+  <para os="d">The <command>perl</command> command above makes 2
+  modifications to GCC's specs: it removes <quote>/tools</quote> from the
+  pathname to the dynamic linker, and adds <quote>/usr/lib/</quote> to the
+  startfile_prefix_spec. It is a good idea to visually inspect the
+  <filename>specs</filename> file, and compare with the output of
+  <command>gcc -dumpspecs</command>, to verify that
+  the intended changes were actually made.</para>
 
   <para os="e">Note that <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> is now