Changeset 6961e423

Timestamp:

06/30/2018 09:18:19 PM (6 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

2f2ca343

Parents:

92eeeeb

Message:

Remove old text about symlinking a dbg version of ld: for any LFS build from the last fourteen months that will make the system both unusable and unbootable.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@20215 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general.ent (modified) (2 diffs)
• general/prog/valgrind.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• networking/netlibs/curl.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• x/installing/libinput.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general.ent

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "28">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "30">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "06">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2018">
@@ -7 +7 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "June 28th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "June 30th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->

general/prog/valgrind.xml

@@ -117 +117 @@
             --datadir=/usr/share/doc/valgrind-&valgrind-version; &&
 make</userinput></screen>
-
-    <note>
-     <para>
-       To run the tests for this package, valgrind requires a version of the
-       /lib/ld-2.26.so (or later) library with debugging symbols present.
-       Normally in LFS these debugging symbols are stripped at the end of
-       Chapter 6. To get this library, glibc must be rebuilt with the current
-       glibc version using the same compiler that was used to build LFS. The
-       ld.so can then be renamed to ld-2.26.so.dbg and copied to /lib.
-       Then a symlink needs to be changed:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sfv ld-2.26.so.dbg /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</userinput></screen>
-    
-     <para>
-       Adjust the above instruction as needed for a 32-bit system or for a
-       different version of glibc.
-     </para>
-
-     <para>
-       In addition, other glibc libraries with debugging symbols present
-       may be needed for some tests.
-     </para>
-    </note>
 
     <para>

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -46 +46 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Remove obsolete text from valgrind re symlinking ld-linux
+          to a .dbg version of ld.  In April 2017 LFS changed the strip commands.
+          That file now only contains debug symbols and is loaded when needed:
+          making the symlink breaks the system. Remove related text from curl.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>June 28th, 2018</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - Update to fribidi-1.0.4.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10857">#10857</ulink>.</para>

networking/netlibs/curl.xml

@@ -160 +160 @@
     installed this time.  Best guess is that servers are not available.
 -->
-    <note>
-      <para>
-      If running the tests for this package with valgrind, it will require a
-      version of /lib/ld-2.[MINORVERSION].so library
-      with debugging symbols present.
-      </para>
-
-      <para>Current versions of LFS do not strip /lib/ld-[MINORVERSION].so but
-      previous versions of LFS stripped these debugging symbols at the end of
-      Chapter 6. To get this library on older systems, glibc must be rebuilt 
-      with the currently running
-      glibc version using the same compiler that was used to build LFS. The
-      ld-[MINORVERSION].so can then be renamed to ld-2.[MINORVERSION].so.dbg
-      and copied to /lib. Then a symlink needs to be changed: 
-      </para>
-
-      <screen role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sfv ld-2.[MINORVERSION].so.dbg /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</userinput></screen>
-
-      <para>
-      Adjust the above instruction as needed for a 32-bit system
-      and to match your installed version of glibc.
-      </para>
-    </note>
 
     <para>
       To run the test suite, issue: <command>make test</command>. Two (of 857) tests
-      failsfor unknown reasons.<!--
+      fail for unknown reasons.<!--
 Added by Pierre for curl-7.59.0:
 no stunnel, no valgrind, no options

x/installing/libinput.xml

@@ -123 +123 @@
       <command>meson</command> command above. The external
       library, libunwind, must be installed.</para>
-
-      <para> To run the tests for this package, valgrind requires a version of
-      the /lib/ld-2.23.so (or later) library with debugging symbols present.
-      Normally in LFS these debugging symbols are stripped at the end of
-      Chapter 6. To get this library, glibc must be rebuilt with the current
-      glibc version using the same compiler that was used to build LFS.  The
-      ld-2.23.so can then be renamed to ld-2.23.so.dbg and copied to /lib.
-      Then a symlink needs to be changed:</para>
-
-      <screen role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sfv ld-2.23.so.dbg /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</userinput></screen>
-
-      <para>Adjust the above instruction as needed for a 32-bit system
-      or for a different version of glibc</para>
 
     </note>