[bc82645e] | 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 2 |
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| 3 | <sect2>
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| 4 | <title>Glibc installation</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <para>Before starting to install Glibc, you must <userinput>cd</userinput>
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| 7 | into the <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;</filename> directory and unpack
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| 8 | Glibc-linuxthreads in that directory, not in <filename>/usr/src</filename> as
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| 9 | you would normally do.</para>
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| 10 |
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[39dbad2] | 11 | <note><para>We are going to run the test suite for Glibc in this chapter.
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[b036adc] | 12 | However, it's worth pointing out that the Glibc test suite we run in this
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[ccaabde] | 13 | section is considered not as important as the one we run in Chapter 6.</para></note>
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[1f53626] | 14 |
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[bc82645e] | 15 | <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its
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| 16 | default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options).
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| 17 | Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override
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| 18 | default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting
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| 19 | them when building Glibc.</para>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <para>Basically, compiling Glibc in any other way than the book suggests
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[66e4325] | 22 | is putting the stability of your system at risk.</para>
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[bc82645e] | 23 |
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[1179ee9] | 24 | <para>Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will
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[c94dd38] | 25 | complain about the absence of <filename>/tools/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>.
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[66e4325] | 26 | Fix this annoying little error with:</para>
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[1179ee9] | 27 |
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[148bb04] | 28 | <para><screen><userinput>mkdir /tools/etc
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| 29 | touch /tools/etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen></para>
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[1179ee9] | 30 |
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[79b94bd] | 31 | <para>Also, Glibc has a subtle problem when compiled with GCC 3.3.1.
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| 32 | Apply the following patch to fix this:</para>
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| 33 |
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[3985670] | 34 | <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../glibc-&glibc-sscanf-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
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[79b94bd] | 35 |
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[677aef3] | 36 | <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source
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| 37 | directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
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[bc82645e] | 38 |
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[4a7a683] | 39 | <para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../glibc-build
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[bc82645e] | 40 | cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen></para>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <para>Next, prepare Glibc to be compiled:</para>
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| 43 |
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[148bb04] | 44 | <para><screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/tools \
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[bc82645e] | 45 | --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
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[148bb04] | 46 | --with-headers=/tools/include \
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| 47 | --with-binutils=/tools/bin \
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[bc82645e] | 48 | --without-gd</userinput></screen></para>
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| 49 |
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[aa49729] | 50 | <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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[bc82645e] | 51 |
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| 52 | <itemizedlist>
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| 53 | <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-profile</userinput>: This disables the
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| 54 | building of the libraries with profiling information. Omit this option if you
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| 55 | plan to do profiling.</para></listitem>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <listitem><para><userinput>--enable-add-ons</userinput>: This enables any
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[66e4325] | 58 | add-ons that were installed with Glibc, in our case Linuxthreads.</para></listitem>
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| 59 |
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[148bb04] | 60 | <listitem><para><userinput>--with-binutils=/tools/bin</userinput> and
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| 61 | <userinput>--with-headers=/tools/include</userinput>: Strictly speaking
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[66e4325] | 62 | these switches are not required. But they ensure nothing can go wrong with
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| 63 | regard to what kernel headers and Binutils programs get used during the
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| 64 | Glibc build.</para></listitem>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <listitem><para><userinput> --without-gd</userinput>: This switch ensures
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| 67 | that we don't build the <userinput>memusagestat</userinput> program, which
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| 68 | strangely enough insists on linking against the host's libraries (libgd,
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| 69 | libpng, libz, and so forth).</para></listitem>
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[bc82645e] | 70 | </itemizedlist>
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| 71 |
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[96dfe0f5] | 72 | <para>During this stage you might see the following warning:</para>
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[bc82645e] | 73 |
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[fbd407f] | 74 | <blockquote><screen>configure: WARNING:
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[1cb7ced] | 75 | *** These auxiliary programs are missing or incompatible versions: msgfmt
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[bc82645e] | 76 | *** some features will be disabled.
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| 77 | *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</screen></blockquote>
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| 78 |
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[1cb7ced] | 79 | <para>The missing or incompatible <filename>msgfmt</filename> program is
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| 80 | generally harmless and shouldn't cause us any problems.</para>
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[bc82645e] | 81 |
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| 82 | <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <para><screen><userinput>make
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| 85 | make check
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| 86 | make install</userinput></screen></para>
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| 87 |
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[431f48d1] | 88 | <para>The glibc make check process is highly dependent on certain functions
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| 89 | of your host operating system. The most common is a host that fails to mount
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| 90 | a tmpfs filesystem at /dev/shm, which may cause glibc tests to fail.</para>
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| 91 |
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[66e4325] | 92 | <para>The locales (used by Glibc to make your Linux system respond in a
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| 93 | different language) weren't installed when you ran the previous command,
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| 94 | so we have to do that ourselves now:</para>
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[bc82645e] | 95 |
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| 96 | <para><screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen></para>
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| 97 |
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[66e4325] | 98 | <para>An alternative to running the previous command is to install only
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| 99 | those locales which you need or want. This can be achieved by using the
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| 100 | <userinput>localedef</userinput> command. Information on this can be
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| 101 | found in the <filename>INSTALL</filename> file in the
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[c825bdc] | 102 | <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;</filename> tree. However, there are a
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| 103 | number of locales that are essential for the tests of future packages
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[fbb00ac] | 104 | to pass correctly, in particular, the libstdc++ tests from GCC. The following
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| 105 | instructions, in place of the install-locales command above, will install
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| 106 | the minimum set of locales necessary for the tests to run successfully:</para>
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[c825bdc] | 107 |
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[fbb00ac] | 108 | <para><screen><userinput>mkdir -p /tools/lib/locale
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[c825bdc] | 109 | localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
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| 110 | localedef -i de_DE@euro -f ISO-8859-15 de_DE@euro
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| 111 | localedef -i en_HK -f ISO-8859-1 en_HK
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| 112 | localedef -i en_PH -f ISO-8859-1 en_PH
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| 113 | localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US
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| 114 | localedef -i es_MX -f ISO-8859-1 es_MX
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| 115 | localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR
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| 116 | localedef -i fr_FR@euro -f ISO-8859-15 fr_FR@euro
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| 117 | localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
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| 118 | localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP</userinput></screen></para>
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[bc82645e] | 119 |
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| 120 | </sect2>
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| 121 |
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