Changeset 318e3c8

Timestamp:

10/02/2003 01:14:47 AM (21 years ago)

Author:

Greg Schafer <greg@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

5331519

Parents:

a985250

Message:

Chapter 6: Reinstate INSTALL=/tools/bin/install for linker adjustment command. Also remove now redundant install symlinks.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2915 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/adjustingtoolchain.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/createfiles.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -96 +96 @@
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>October 2nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6: Reinstate
+INSTALL=/tools/bin/install for linker adjustment command due to issues on hosts
+where a ginstall symlink exists. This renders the "install" symlinks redundant
+so removed those too.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>October 2nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Enable
 MD5 passwords. Closes Bug 600.</para></listitem>

chapter06/adjustingtoolchain.xml

@@ -13 +13 @@
 <filename class="directory">binutils-build</filename> directory:</para>
 
-<para><screen><userinput>make -C ld install</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>make -C ld INSTALL=/tools/bin/install install</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>From now on every compiled program will link <emphasis>only</emphasis>
-against the libraries in <filename>/usr/lib</filename> and <filename>/lib
-</filename>.</para>
+against the libraries in <filename>/usr/lib</filename> and
+<filename>/lib</filename>. The extra
+<userinput>INSTALL=/tools/bin/install</userinput> is needed because the Makefile
+created during the second pass still contains the reference to
+<filename>/usr/bin/install</filename>, which we obviously haven't installed yet.
+Some host distributions contain a <filename class="symlink">ginstall</filename>
+symbolic link which takes precedence in the Makefile and thus can cause a
+problem here. The above command takes care of this also.</para>
 
 <para>You can now remove the Binutils source and build directories.</para>

chapter06/createfiles.xml

@@ -9 +9 @@
 
 <para><screen><userinput>ln -s /tools/bin/{bash,pwd,cat,stty} /bin
-ln -s /tools/bin/{perl,install} /usr/bin
+ln -s /tools/bin/perl /usr/bin
 ln -s /tools/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib
-ln -s bash /bin/sh
-ln -s ../usr/bin/install /bin</userinput></screen></para>
+ln -s bash /bin/sh</userinput></screen></para>
 
 </sect1>

chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml

@@ -28 +28 @@
 within the binary itself, but does this the wrong way. If a
 <userinput>passwd</userinput> binary is not present before installing Shadow,
-the package wrongly assumes it is going to be located at
+the package incorrectly assumes it is going to be located at
 <filename>/bin/passwd</filename>, but then installs it in
-<filename>/usr/bin/passwd</filename>. This will lead to weird errors about not
-finding <filename>/bin/passwd</filename>. To work around this bug, create a
-dummy <filename>passwd</filename> file, so that it gets hard-wired
-properly:</para>
+<filename>/usr/bin/passwd</filename>. This will lead to errors about not finding
+<filename>/bin/passwd</filename>. To work around this bug, create a dummy
+<filename>passwd</filename> file, so that it gets hard-wired properly:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>touch /usr/bin/passwd</userinput></screen></para>