Changeset deaf14a

Timestamp:

06/19/2004 10:01:05 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

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, 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:

2def124

Parents:

d8277ea

Message:

Provide clearer information on how to determine whether the host kernel is suitable for performing glibc's testsuite

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3822 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter05/hostreqs.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -77 +77 @@
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter05 - hostreqs.  Provide clearer
+information regarding determining whether the host kernel is suitable for
+passing glibcs testsuite</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter06 - creatingdirs.  Use
 `install -d` instead of `mkdir` (fixes bug #821)</para></listitem>

chapter05/hostreqs.xml

@@ -20 +20 @@
 created properly.</para>
 
-<para>As for obtaining such a kernel, let's hope you distributor has provided
-a 2.6 kernel package for you. If so, install it. If not, you'll have to compile
-it yourself. If you're forced into a situation where you need to compile it
-yourself, it is highly recommended that you compile your kernel in a monolithic
-manner, as you probably don't want to go fiddling with your hosts module
-utilities. Supposing you don't want to listen, open up the module-init-tools
-tarball and check out the README on how to get module support for 2.6.</para>
+<para>In order to check that your host kernel meets the requirements outlined
+above, you can run the following command:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>cat /proc/version</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>This will produce output similar to:</para>
+
+<blockquote><screen><computeroutput>Linux version 2.6.2 (user@host) (gcc version 3.4.0) #1 Tue Apr 20 21:22:18 GMT 2004</computeroutput></screen></blockquote>
+
+<para>If the results of the above command state that your host kernel wasn't
+compiled using a GCC-3.0 (or later) compiler, you will need to compile one
+yourself, and reboot your host to use the newly compiled kernel. Instructions
+for compiling the kernel and configuring the bootloader (assuming your host uses
+GRUB) are given in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
 
 </sect1>