Changeset 0376c98 for chapter06/glibc.xml

Timestamp:

04/07/2016 09:56:11 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

Douglas R. Reno <renodr@…>

Children:

ed17c23

Parents:

68c0a30

Message:

Add a caution in the gmp section about possible Illegal Instruction errors if the host is misidentified or the libraries are copied to different systems. Merged from trunk r11044.

Remove obsolete note about iconv() in Chapter 6 Glibc. Merged from trunk r11043.

Add a note about UEFI and Secure Boot systems to the GRUB page. Merged from trunk r11043.

Add notes about paths for 64-bit systems in the Adjusting the Toolchain page. Merged from trunk r11043.

Update to linux-4.5. Merged from trunk r11042.

Update to grep-2.24. Merged from trunk r11042.

Update to expat-2.1.1. Merged from trunk r11042.

Update to tzdata2016c. Merged from trunk r11042.

Update to iproute2-4.5.0. Merged from trunk r11042.

Update to man-pages-4.05. Merged from trunk r11042.

Update to gzip-1.7. Merged from trunk r11042.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/systemd@11045 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/glibc.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

chapter06/glibc.xml

@@ -43 +43 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
-
+<!--
     <note>
       <para>Some packages outside of LFS suggest installing GNU libiconv in
@@ -54 +54 @@
       Unicode, therefore libiconv is not required on an LFS system.</para>
     </note>
+-->
+
+    <note><para>The Glibc build system is self-contained and will install
+    perfectly, even though the compiler specs file and linker are still
+    pointing to <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>. The specs
+    and linker cannot be adjusted before the Glibc install because the
+    Glibc autoconf tests would give false results and defeat the goal
+    of achieving a clean build.</para></note>
+
     <para>Some of the Glibc programs use non-FHS compilant
     <filename class="directory">/var/db</filename> directory to store
@@ -66 +75 @@
     Glibc autoconf tests would give false results and defeat the goal
     of achieving a clean build.</para>
-<!--
-    <para>Now fix a build problem that affects i386 systems:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-upstream-patch;</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>The most recent stable version of Glibc does not handle large files
-    correctly.  Fix the problem with this patch:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-largefile-patch;</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>Finally, update some recent changes from the upstream repository:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-upstream-patch2;</userinput></screen>
--->
+
     <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc 
     in a dedicated build directory:</para>
@@ -131 +127 @@
         AMD processor.</para>
       </listitem>
-<!--
+      
       <listitem>
-        <para>The <emphasis>elf/tst-protected1b</emphasis> and
-        <emphasis>elf/tst-protected1b</emphasis> tests are known to
-        fail with the current stable version of binutils.</para>
+        <para>The
+        <emphasis>nptl/tst-thread-affinity-{pthread,pthread2,sched}</emphasis>
+        tests may fail for reasons that have not been determined. </para>
       </listitem>
--->
+
       <listitem>
         <para>Other tests known to fail on some architectures are
@@ -166 +162 @@
 install -v -Dm644 ../nscd/nscd.service /lib/systemd/system/nscd.service</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>The locales that can make the system respond in a different language
-    were not installed by the above command. None of the locales are required,
+    <para>Next, install the locales that can make the system respond in a 
+    different language. None of the locales are required,
     but if some of them are missing, test suites of the future packages would
     skip important testcases.</para>