[6370fa6] | 1 | <sect2>
|
---|
| 2 | <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
|
---|
| 3 |
|
---|
[ea57e1b] | 4 | <para>Before starting to install glibc, you must cd into the
|
---|
| 5 | glibc-&glibc-version; directory and unpack glibc-linuxthreads inside
|
---|
[be2942c] | 6 | the glibc-&glibc-version; directory, not in /usr/src as you normally
|
---|
[b822811] | 7 | would do.</para>
|
---|
[6370fa6] | 8 |
|
---|
[b822811] | 9 | <para>Install Glibc by running the following commands:</para>
|
---|
[6370fa6] | 10 |
|
---|
[ea57e1b] | 11 | <para><screen><userinput>mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3 &&</userinput>
|
---|
[3229c6b] | 12 | <userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf &&</userinput>
|
---|
[2fbf709] | 13 | <userinput>cp -f malloc/Makefile \</userinput>
|
---|
| 14 | <userinput> malloc/Makefile.backup &&</userinput>
|
---|
| 15 | <userinput>sed 's%\$(PERL)%/usr/bin/perl%' \</userinput>
|
---|
| 16 | <userinput> malloc/Makefile > tmp~ &&</userinput>
|
---|
| 17 | <userinput>mv -f tmp~ malloc/Makefile &&</userinput>
|
---|
| 18 | <userinput>cp -f login/Makefile \</userinput>
|
---|
| 19 | <userinput> login/Makefile.backup &&</userinput>
|
---|
| 20 | <userinput>sed 's/root/0/' login/Makefile > tmp~ &&</userinput>
|
---|
| 21 | <userinput>mv -f tmp~ login/Makefile &&</userinput>
|
---|
[be2942c] | 22 | <userinput>mkdir ../glibc-build &&</userinput>
|
---|
| 23 | <userinput>cd ../glibc-build &&</userinput>
|
---|
[3229c6b] | 24 | <userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure \</userinput>
|
---|
| 25 | <userinput> --prefix=/usr --enable-add-ons \</userinput>
|
---|
| 26 | <userinput> --libexecdir=/usr/bin &&</userinput>
|
---|
[2fbf709] | 27 | <userinput>cp -f config.make config.make.backup &&</userinput>
|
---|
[8f5efb62] | 28 | <userinput>sed 's/cross-compiling = yes/cross-compiling = no/' \</userinput>
|
---|
[0cb331d] | 29 | <userinput> config.make > tmp~ &&</userinput>
|
---|
| 30 | <userinput>mv -f tmp~ config.make &&</userinput>
|
---|
[3229c6b] | 31 | <userinput>make &&</userinput>
|
---|
| 32 | <userinput>make install &&</userinput>
|
---|
[463e888] | 33 | <userinput>make localedata/install-locales &&</userinput>
|
---|
[e5dc2d9] | 34 | <userinput>exec /bin/bash --login</userinput></screen></para>
|
---|
[6370fa6] | 35 |
|
---|
[951a2f5] | 36 | <para>An alternative to running <userinput>make
|
---|
| 37 | localedate/install-locales</userinput> is to only install those locales
|
---|
| 38 | which you need or want. This can be achieved using the localedef
|
---|
| 39 | command. Information on this can be found in the INSTALL
|
---|
| 40 | file in the glibc-&glibc-version; tree.</para>
|
---|
| 41 |
|
---|
[b822811] | 42 | <para>During the configure stage you will see the following warning:</para>
|
---|
[0e347034] | 43 |
|
---|
[b822811] | 44 | <blockquote><screen>configure: warning:
|
---|
[0e347034] | 45 | *** An auxiliary program is missing or too old;
|
---|
| 46 | *** some features will be disabled.
|
---|
[b822811] | 47 | *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</screen></blockquote>
|
---|
[0e347034] | 48 |
|
---|
[9960acd] | 49 | <para> This warning refers to the missing msgfmt program from the
|
---|
| 50 | gettext package, but it can safely be ignored in our case. The glibc
|
---|
| 51 | installation will not be affected.</para>
|
---|
[0e347034] | 52 |
|
---|
[6370fa6] | 53 | </sect2>
|
---|
| 54 |
|
---|