Changes in chapter05/glibc.xml [0fc1b27:cb518e0]

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• chapter05/glibc.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter05/glibc.xml

@@ -46 +46 @@
     <para>First, create a symbolic link for LSB compliance. Additionally,
     for x86_64, create a compatibility symbolic link required for proper
-    operation of the dynamic library loader:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">case $(uname -m) in
-    i?86)   ln -sfv ld-linux.so.2 $LFS/lib/ld-lsb.so.3
+    operation of the dynamic library loader.  It's needed to adjust the
+    command if you are building LFS for a target other than 32-bit or
+    64-bit x86.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">case $LFS_TGT in
+    i?86*)   ln -sfv ld-linux.so.2 $LFS/lib/ld-lsb.so.3
     ;;
-    x86_64) ln -sfv ../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 $LFS/lib64
-            ln -sfv ../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 $LFS/lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3
+    x86_64*) ln -sfv ../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 $LFS/lib64
+             ln -sfv ../lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 $LFS/lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3
     ;;
 esac</userinput></screen>
@@ -90 +92 @@
       --host=$LFS_TGT                    \
       --build=$(../scripts/config.guess) \
-      --enable-kernel=&min-kernel;                \
+      --enable-kernel=&linux-major-version;.&linux-minor-version;               \
       --with-headers=$LFS/usr/include    \
       libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
@@ -107 +109 @@
 
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=&min-kernel;</parameter></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>This tells Glibc to compile the library with support
-          for &min-kernel; and later Linux kernels.  Workarounds for older
-          kernels are not enabled.</para>
+        <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=&linux-major-version;.&linux-minor-version;</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This option tells the build system that this glibc may
+          be used with kernels as old as
+          &linux-major-version;.&linux-minor-version;. This means generating
+          workarounds in case a system call introduced in a later version
+          cannot be used.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>