Changeset 8a59b64

Timestamp:

01/06/2003 04:39:27 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

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, v4_1, 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:

3f7da25

Parents:

f24558cd

Message:

added note that patch is also required if host system uses glibc _older_ than 2.2.x (not just 2.2.x)

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2286 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/glibc-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/glibc-inst.xml

@@ -41 +41 @@
 
 <para>There is a potential problem that causes statically linked binaries
-to crash that were linked against Glibc-2.2 libraries. Even though static
-binaries have all the necessary parts of Glibc built-in, they still rely
-on one external library: Glibc's NSS libraries. These libraries, among
+to crash that were linked against Glibc-2.2 or older libraries. Even though
+static binaries have all the necessary parts of Glibc built-in, they still
+rely on one external library: Glibc's NSS libraries. These libraries, among
 other things, tell programs where the system's password database is
 (/etc/password, or NIS, or whatever other scheme has been
 configured).</para>
 
-<para>Glibc has undergone some changes since version
-2.2.x and the new NSS code is incompatible with the old one. So when Glibc
-is installed, it will install its new NSS libraries and static programs
-will load these new NSS libraries and start to abort with
-<emphasis>segmentation faults</emphasis>. This patch undoes a few of the
-changes to overcome the problem.</para>
+<para>Glibc has undergone some changes since version 2.2.x and the new NSS
+code is incompatible with the old one. So when Glibc is installed, it will
+install its new NSS libraries and static programs will load these new NSS
+libraries and start to abort with <emphasis>segmentation faults</emphasis>.
+This patch undoes a few of the changes to overcome the problem.</para>
 
 <para>So, if you started chapter 5 with a host system that uses Glibc-2.2.x
-you must apply the following patch. We will install Glibc again at the end
-of this chapter to remove this patch so you'll have a pristine Glibc as the
-developers intended
-it.</para>
+or older, you must apply the following patch. We will install Glibc again at
+the end of this chapter to remove this patch so you'll have a pristine Glibc
+as the developers intended it.</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../glibc-&glibc-libnss-patch-version;-libnss.patch</userinput></screen></para>