From c47877c8012e54cc0e8cf981d1477aa3b2ee3899 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 21:13:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Various fixes: . Fix title of a section. . Fix grammar in a few places. . Always use ... instead of --- .../books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml | 18 ++++++------------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml index 123e4ec005..863e802a0d 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml @@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ subscribe cvs-all - Update the files of <filename>/etc</filename> + Update the files in <filename>/etc</filename> The /etc directory contains a large part of your system's configuration information, as well as scripts @@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ Script done, … files, determining how they differ with your existing files. Note that some of the files that will have been installed in - /var/tmp/root have a leading /var/tmp/root have a leading .. At the time of writing the only files like this are shell startup files in /var/tmp/root/ and /var/tmp/root/root/, although there may be others @@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ Script done, … At the end of the day, it is your call. You might be happy re-making the world every fortnight say, and let changes accumulate over that fortnight. Or you might want to re-make - just those things that have changed, and are confident you can + just those things that have changed, and be confident you can spot all the dependencies. And, of course, this all depends on how often you want to @@ -1495,14 +1495,14 @@ Script done, … /usr/obj contains all the object files that were produced during the compilation phase. Normally, one - of the first steps in the make world process is to remove this directory and start afresh. In this case, keeping /usr/obj around after you have finished makes little sense, and will free up a large chunk of disk space (currently about 340MB). However, if you know what you are doing you can have - make world skip this step. This will make subsequent builds run much faster, since most of sources will not need to be recompiled. The flip side of this is that subtle dependency problems can creep in, causing your build to fail in odd ways. @@ -1510,12 +1510,6 @@ Script done, … when one person complains that their build has failed, not realising that it is because they have tried to cut corners. - - If you want to live dangerously then make the world, passing - the NOCLEAN definition to make, like - this: - - &prompt.root; make -DNOCLEAN world @@ -1606,7 +1600,7 @@ Building everything.. - Pass the option to make to + Pass the option to &man.make.1; to run multiple processes in parallel. This usually helps regardless of whether you have a single or a multi processor machine.