Changeset 70cdda10 for chapter05/fileutils-inst.xml

Timestamp:

09/07/2001 08:51:36 PM (23 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

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Children:

0ed57c8

Parents:

ebedcc2

Message:

reworded the glibc-2.2.3 fix. it had better be clear now

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1198 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter05/fileutils-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter05/fileutils-inst.xml

@@ -3 +3 @@
 
 <para>The programs from a statically linked fileutils package may cause
-segmentation faults on certain systems. These systems are often, but not 
-limited to, Linux systems that run Glibc-2.2.3 with an AMD CPU (Athlons 
-and Durons are the most reported used CPU's). If you are in this category, 
-run the following to sed commands before you compile this
-package.</para>
+segmentation faults on certain systems, if your distribution has
+Glibc-2.2.3 or higher installed. It also seems to happen mostly on machines
+powered by an AMD CPU, but there is a case or two where an Intel system
+is affected as well. If your system falls under this category, try the
+following fix.</para>
 
 <para>Note that in some cases using these sed commands will result in
-problems not being able to compile this at package at all. If that's the
-case, you'll need to remove the fileutils-&fileutils-version; directory
-and unpack it again from the tarball before continuing.
+problems not being able to compile this at package at all, even when your
+system has and AMD CPU and has Glibc-2.2.3 (or higher) installed. If that's 
+the case, you'll need to remove the fileutils-&fileutils-version; directory
+and unpack it again from the tarball before continuing. We believe this
+may be the case when your distribution has altered Glibc-2.2.3 somehow,
+but details are unavailable at the time.</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>cp lib/Makefile.in lib/Makefile.in.backup &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+<para>To fix this package to compile properly on AMD/Glibc-2.2.3
+machines, run the following commands. do <emphasis>not</emphasis>
+attempt this fix your don't have Glibc-2.2.3 installed. It will more 
+than likely result in all kinds of compile time problems.</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>cp lib/Makefile.in lib/Makefile.in.backup &amp;&amp;</userinput>
 <userinput>sed -e 's/\(.*\)\(fopen-safer\.c \)\\/\1\2atexit.c \\/' \</userinput>
 <userinput>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-e 's/\(.*\)\(idcache\$U\.\$.*\)\\/\1\2atexit$U.$(OBJEXT) \\/' \</userinput>