Changeset 51fe215 for chapter05

Timestamp:

01/17/2004 07:53:07 AM (20 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_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:

0afaac4

Parents:

443cace

Message:

Expanded the Locking in Glibc and Re-adjusting the toolchain
sections to also catch missing cc->gcc symlink and provide more
help for when things go wrong.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3173 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Location:

chapter05

Files:

• chapter05.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• gcc-pass1.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter05/chapter05.xml

@@ -463 +463 @@
 
 <para>We recommend that you cut-and-paste the above rather than try and type it
-all in. Or you can edit the specs file by hand if you want to: just replace any
-occurrence of "/lib/ld-linux.so.2" with "/tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2".</para>
+all in. Or you can edit the specs file by hand if you want to: just replace the
+occurrence of "/lib/ld-linux.so.2" with "/tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2". Be sure to
+visually inspect the specs file to verify the intended change was actually
+made.</para>
 
 <important><para>If you are working on a platform where the name of the dynamic
@@ -488 +490 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>echo 'main(){}' &gt; dummy.c
-gcc dummy.c
+cc dummy.c
 readelf -l a.out | grep ': /tools'</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -496 +498 @@
 <blockquote><screen>[Requesting program interpreter: /tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2]</screen></blockquote>
 
-<para>If you did not receive the output as shown above, or received no output at
-all, then something is seriously wrong. You will need to investigate and retrace
-your steps to find out where the problem is and correct it. There is no point in
-continuing until this is done. Most likely something went wrong with the specs
-file amendment above. Note especially that <filename>/tools/lib</filename>
-appears as the prefix of our dynamic linker. Of course, if you are working on a
-platform where the name of the dynamic linker is something other than
-<filename>ld-linux.so.2</filename>, then the output will be slightly
-different.</para>
+<para>(Of course allowing for platform specific differences in dynamic linker
+name). Note especially that <filename class="directory">/tools/lib</filename>
+appears as the prefix of our dynamic linker. If you did not receive the output
+as shown above, or received no output at all, then something is seriously wrong.
+You will need to investigate and retrace your steps to find out where the
+problem is and correct it. There is no point in continuing until this is done.
+First, redo the sanity check using <userinput>gcc</userinput> instead of
+<userinput>cc</userinput>. If this works it means the
+<filename class="symlink">/tools/bin/cc</filename> symlink is missing. Revisit
+<xref linkend="ch05-gcc-pass1"/> and fix the symlink. Second, ensure your $PATH
+is correct. You can check this by running <userinput>echo $PATH</userinput> and
+verifying that <filename class="directory">/tools/bin</filename> is at the head
+of the list. If the $PATH is wrong it could mean you're not logged in as user
+<emphasis>lfs</emphasis> or something went wrong back in
+<xref linkend="ch05-settingenviron"/>. Third, something may have gone wrong with
+the specs file amendment above. In this case redo the specs file amendment
+ensuring to cut-and-paste the commands as was recommended.</para>
 
 <para>Once you are satisfied that all is well, clean up the test files:</para>

chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml

@@ -99 +99 @@
 C compiler to install, as long as there's a symlink pointing to it:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>ln -sf gcc /tools/bin/cc</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>ln -s gcc /tools/bin/cc</userinput></screen>
 
 </sect2>