Changeset dbc347c5 for chapter06

Timestamp:

09/29/2015 09:27:18 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Douglas R. Reno <renodr@…>

Branches:

7.9-systemd

Children:

6eb40d4

Parents:

102c4bb6

Message:

Update to util-linux-2.27
Update to linux-4.2
Update to iproute2-4.2.0
Refresh SBU values and build sizes
Remove unnecessary sed in e2fsprogs
Provide ncurses non-wide-character libraries for version 5
Add additional discussion about copying systems
Fix a warning in the GCC compiler tests
Several typo fixes and additional clarification.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/systemd@10956 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Location:

chapter06

Files:

• adjusting.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• diffutils.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• e2fsprogs.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• glibc.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• grep.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• introduction.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• m4.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• ncurses.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• pkgmgt.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• xz.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/adjusting.xml

@@ -43 +43 @@
   as expected. To do this, perform the following sanity checks:</para>
 
-<screen os="a"><userinput>echo 'main(){}' &gt; dummy.c
+<screen os="a"><userinput>echo 'int main(){}' &gt; dummy.c
 cc dummy.c -v -Wl,--verbose &amp;&gt; dummy.log
 readelf -l a.out | grep ': /lib'</userinput></screen>

chapter06/diffutils.xml

@@ -57 +57 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>The test-update-copyright.sh failure can be safely ignored.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>

chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml

@@ -45 +45 @@
     <title>Installation of E2fsprogs</title>
 
-    <para>First, fix a potential security issue identified upstream:</para>
+<!--     <para>First, fix a potential security issue identified upstream:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e '/int.*old_desc_blocks/s/int/blk64_t/' \
     -e '/if (old_desc_blocks/s/super->s_first_meta_bg/desc_blocks/' \
-    -i lib/ext2fs/closefs.c</userinput></screen>
+    -i lib/ext2fs/closefs.c</userinput></screen> -->
 
     <para>The E2fsprogs documentation recommends that the package be built in

chapter06/glibc.xml

@@ -140 +140 @@
       <listitem>
         <para>The <emphasis>elf/tst-protected1a</emphasis> and
-        <emphasis>elf/tst-protected1a</emphasis> tests are known to
+        <emphasis>elf/tst-protected1b</emphasis> tests are known to
         fail with the current stable version of binutils.</para>
       </listitem>

chapter06/grep.xml

@@ -57 +57 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>The test-update-copyright.sh failure can be safely ignored.</para>
+
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 

chapter06/introduction.xml

@@ -65 +65 @@
     to remove a security problem, all programs that use the static library will
     need to be relinked to the new library.  Since the use of static libraries
-    is not always obvious, deciding which programs (and the procedures needed to
+    is not always obvious, the relevant programs (and the procedures needed to
     do the linking) may not even be known.</para>
 
-    <para>In the prcedures in Chapter 6, we remove or disable installation of
+    <para>In the procedures in Chapter 6, we remove or disable installation of
     most static libraries.  In a few cases, especially glibc and gcc, the use
     of static libraries remains essential to the general package building

chapter06/m4.xml

@@ -53 +53 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>The test-update-copyright.sh failure can safely be ignored.</para>
+
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 

chapter06/ncurses.xml

@@ -142 +142 @@
       <para>The instructions above don't create non-wide-character Ncurses
       libraries since no package installed by compiling from sources would
-      link against them at runtime. If you must have such libraries because
+      link against them at runtime. However, the only known binary-only
+      applications that link against non-wide-character Ncurses libraries
+      require version 5. If you must have such libraries because
       of some binary-only application or to be compliant with LSB, build
       the package again with the following commands:</para>
@@ -151 +153 @@
             --without-normal \
             --without-debug  \
-            --without-cxx-binding
+            --without-cxx-binding \
+            --with-abi-version=5
 make sources libs
-cp -av lib/lib*.so.6* /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
+cp -av lib/lib*.so.5* /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
     </note>
 

chapter06/pkgmgt.xml

@@ -251 +251 @@
     <para>One of the advantages of an LFS system is that there are no files that
     depend on the position of files on a disk system.  Cloning an LFS build to
-    another computer with an architecture similar to the base system is as
+    another computer with the same architecture as the base system is as
     simple as using <command>tar</command> on the LFS partition that contains
     the root directory (about 250MB uncompressed for a base LFS build), copying
@@ -269 +269 @@
     configuration.</para>
 
+    <note><para>There have been some reports of issues when copying between
+    similar but not identical architectures. For instance, the instruction set
+    for an Intel architecture is not identical with an AMD processor and later
+    versions of some processors may have instructions that are unavailable in
+    earlier versions.</para></note>
+
     <para>Finally the new system has to be made bootable via <xref
     linkend="ch-bootable-grub"/>.</para>

chapter06/xz.xml

@@ -150 +150 @@
         <term><command>lzegrep</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Runs <command>egrep</command> on LZMA compressed files files</para>
+          <para>Runs <command>egrep</command> on LZMA compressed files</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzegrep">
             <primary sortas="b-lzegrep">lzegrep</primary>