Changeset 5bc82c5 for chapter06/linux-headers.xml

Timestamp:

10/04/2006 05:15:25 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Branches:

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Children:

49451499

Parents:

93bc4a2

Message:

Rename the Linux Libc Headers pages

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7817 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/linux-headers.xml (moved) (moved from chapter06/linux-libc-headers.xml ) (6 diffs)

chapter06/linux-headers.xml

@@ -6 +6 @@
 ]>
 
-<sect1 id="ch-system-linux-libc-headers" role="wrap">
-  <?dbhtml filename="linux-libc-headers.html"?>
+<sect1 id="ch-system-linux-headers" role="wrap">
+  <?dbhtml filename="linux-headers.html"?>
 
-  <title>Linux-Libc-Headers-&linux-libc-headers-version;</title>
+  <title>Linux-Headers-&linux-version;</title>
 
-  <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-libc-headers">
-    <primary sortas="a-Linux-Libc-Headers">Linux-Libc-Headers</primary>
+  <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-headers">
+    <primary sortas="a-Linux-Headers">Linux-Headers</primary>
   </indexterm>
 
@@ -18 +18 @@
     <title/>
 
-    <para>The Linux-Libc-Headers package contains the
-    <quote>sanitized</quote> kernel headers.</para>
+    <para>The Linux-Headers expose the kernel's API for use by Glibc.</para>
 
     <segmentedlist>
@@ -26 +25 @@
 
       <seglistitem>
-        <seg>&linux-libc-headers-ch6-sbu;</seg>
-        <seg>&linux-libc-headers-ch6-du;</seg>
+        <seg>&linux-headers-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+        <seg>&linux-headers-ch6-du;</seg>
       </seglistitem>
     </segmentedlist>
@@ -34 +33 @@
 
   <sect2 role="installation">
-    <title>Installation of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>
+    <title>Installation of Linux-Headers</title>
 
-    <para>For years it has been common practice to use <quote>raw</quote>
-    kernel headers (straight from a kernel tarball) in <filename
-    class="directory">/usr/include</filename>, but over the last few
-    years, the kernel developers have taken a strong stance that this
-    should not be done. This gave birth to the Linux-Libc-Headers Project,
-    which was designed to maintain an API stable version of the Linux
-    headers.</para>
+    <para>The Linux kernel needs to expose an Application Programming Interface
+    (API) for the system's C library (Glibc in LFS) to utilize.  This is done
+    by way of sanitizing various C header files that are shipped in the Linux
+    kernel source tarball.</para>
 
-    <para>Add a userspace header and syscall support for the inotify feature
-    available in newer Linux kernels:</para>
+    <para>Apply the following patch to provide <command>unifdef</command>, which
+    the installation of the kernel headers requires:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&linux-inotify-patch;</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../linux-&linux-version;-unifdef-1.patch</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Install the header files:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>install -dv /usr/include/asm
-cp -Rv include/asm-i386/* /usr/include/asm
-cp -Rv include/linux /usr/include</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>make mrproper
+make headers_check
+make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr headers_install</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Ensure that all the headers are owned by root:</para>
@@ -66 +62 @@
   </sect2>
 
-  <sect2 id="contents-linux-libc-headers" role="content">
-    <title>Contents of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>
+  <sect2 id="contents-linux-headers" role="content">
+    <title>Contents of Linux-Headers</title>
 
     <segmentedlist>
@@ -82 +78 @@
       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 
-      <varlistentry id="linux-libc-headers">
+      <varlistentry id="linux-headers">
         <term><filename class="headerfile">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</filename></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>The Linux API headers</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-libc-headers linux-libc-headers">
+          <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-headers linux-headers">
             <primary sortas="e-/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</primary>
           </indexterm>