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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2015-02-16 17:50:44 -0500
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2015-02-16 17:50:44 -0500
commitb4377c155f47514eeb045642ec22d2e42b1d85f8 (patch)
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downloadgpsd-b4377c155f47514eeb045642ec22d2e42b1d85f8.tar.gz
Typo corrections to build instructions.
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@@ -256,11 +256,11 @@ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PWD}
The other is to install the chrpath utility and do your builds with
chrpath=yes.
-The reason one of these required is because of some details
+The reason one of these is required is because of some details
about dynamic linking. The search path for dynamic linking that is
compiled into your binaries as you build them is set by the
environment variable RPATH, if it exists. At runtime, when a
-dynamically-linked executable is called, that patch is extended
+dynamically-linked executable is called, that path is prepended
with $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Ideally, during development, we want to build build binaries that (a)