[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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| 11 | <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its
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| 12 | default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options).
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| 13 | Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override
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| 14 | default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting
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| 15 | them when building Glibc.</para>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <para>Basically, compiling Glibc in any other way than the book suggests
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[66e4325] | 18 | is putting the stability of your system at risk.</para>
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[bc82645e] | 19 |
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[1179ee9] | 20 | <para>Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will
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[66e4325] | 21 | complain about the absence of <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>.
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| 22 | Fix this annoying little error with:</para>
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[1179ee9] | 23 |
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| 24 | <para><screen><userinput>mkdir /stage1/etc
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| 25 | touch /stage1/etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen></para>
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| 26 |
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[bc82645e] | 27 | <para>The documentation that comes with Glibc recommends to build the package
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| 28 | not in the source directory but in a separate, dedicated directory:</para>
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| 29 |
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[4a7a683] | 30 | <para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../glibc-build
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[bc82645e] | 31 | cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen></para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para>Next, prepare Glibc to be compiled:</para>
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| 34 |
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[84a7dc2] | 35 | <para><screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/stage1 \
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[bc82645e] | 36 | --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
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| 37 | --with-headers=/stage1/include \
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| 38 | --with-binutils=/stage1/bin \
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| 39 | --without-gd</userinput></screen></para>
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| 40 |
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[66e4325] | 41 | <para>The meaning of the new configure options is:</para>
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[bc82645e] | 42 |
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| 43 | <itemizedlist>
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| 44 | <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-profile</userinput>: This disables the
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| 45 | building of the libraries with profiling information. Omit this option if you
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| 46 | plan to do profiling.</para></listitem>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <listitem><para><userinput>--enable-add-ons</userinput>: This enables any
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[66e4325] | 49 | add-ons that were installed with Glibc, in our case Linuxthreads.</para></listitem>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <listitem><para><userinput>--with-binutils=/stage1/bin</userinput> and
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| 52 | <userinput>--with-headers=/stage1/include</userinput>: Strictly speaking
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| 53 | these switches are not required. But they ensure nothing can go wrong with
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| 54 | regard to what kernel headers and Binutils programs get used during the
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| 55 | Glibc build.</para></listitem>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <listitem><para><userinput> --without-gd</userinput>: This switch ensures
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| 58 | that we don't build the <userinput>memusagestat</userinput> program, which
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| 59 | strangely enough insists on linking against the host's libraries (libgd,
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| 60 | libpng, libz, and so forth).</para></listitem>
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[bc82645e] | 61 | </itemizedlist>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <para>During this stage you will see the following warning:</para>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <blockquote><screen>configure: warning:
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| 66 | *** These auxiliary programs are missing or too old: msgfmt
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| 67 | *** some features will be disabled.
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| 68 | *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</screen></blockquote>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <para>The missing <filename>msgfmt</filename> program (from the Gettext
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| 71 | package, which we'll install later) won't cause any problems. The
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| 72 | <filename>msgfmt</filename> is used to generate the binary translation
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| 73 | files that can make your system talk in a different language. Because these
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| 74 | translation files have already been generated for you, there is no need for
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| 75 | <filename>msgfmt</filename>. You'd only need the program if you change the
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| 76 | translation source files (the <filename>*.po</filename> files in the
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| 77 | <filename class="directory">po</filename> subdirectory), which
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| 78 | would require you to regenerate the binary files.</para>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <para><screen><userinput>make
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| 83 | make check
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| 84 | make install</userinput></screen></para>
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| 85 |
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[66e4325] | 86 | <para>The locales (used by Glibc to make your Linux system respond in a
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| 87 | different language) weren't installed when you ran the previous command,
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| 88 | so we have to do that ourselves now:</para>
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[bc82645e] | 89 |
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| 90 | <para><screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen></para>
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| 91 |
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[66e4325] | 92 | <para>An alternative to running the previous command is to install only
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| 93 | those locales which you need or want. This can be achieved by using the
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| 94 | <userinput>localedef</userinput> command. Information on this can be
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| 95 | found in the <filename>INSTALL</filename> file in the
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| 96 | <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;</filename> tree.</para>
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[bc82645e] | 97 |
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| 98 | </sect2>
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| 99 |
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