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