Changeset 0376c98 for chapter06/gmp.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/gmp.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/gmp.xml

@@ -92 +92 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check 2>&amp;1 | tee gmp-check-log</userinput></screen>
 
+    <caution><para>The code in gmp is highly optimized for the processor where
+    it is built. Occasionally, the code that detects the processor
+    misidentifies the system capabilities and there will be errors in the
+    tests or other applications using the gmp libraries with the message
+    "Illegal instruction". In this case, gmp should be reconfigured with the
+    option --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and rebuilt.</para></caution>
+
     <para>Ensure that all 190 tests in the test suite passed.
     Check the results by issuing the following command:</para>