Changeset e4b8b81 for chapter05/linux-headers.xml

Timestamp:

10/27/2008 06:33:21 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

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Children:

bdd7f27

Parents:

db2f21e

Message:

Added a brief explanation of the Linux API Headers instructions.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8708 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter05/linux-headers.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter05/linux-headers.xml

@@ -45 +45 @@
 
     <para>The Linux kernel needs to expose an Application Programming Interface
-    (API) for the system's C library (Glibc in LFS) to utilize.  This is done
+    (API) for the system's C library (Glibc in LFS) to use.  This is done
     by way of sanitizing various C header files that are shipped in the Linux
     kernel source tarball.</para>
 
-    <para>Install the header files:</para>
+    <para>First, make sure there are no stale files and dependencies lying around
+    from previous activity:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make mrproper
-make headers_check
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make mrproper</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Now test and extract the user-visible kernel headers from the source.
+    They are placed in an intermediate local directory and copied to the needed
+    location because the extraction process removes any existing files in 
+    the target directory.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make headers_check
 make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=dest headers_install
 cp -rv dest/include/* /tools/include</userinput></screen>