Changeset efcb393 for chapter05/flex.xml

Timestamp:

05/03/2020 09:02:51 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

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, 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:

a715dec

Parents:

9d719e2

Message:

Make the new book

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/cross-chap5@11831 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter05/flex.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter05/flex.xml

@@ -46 +46 @@
     <para>Prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr                     \
+            --host=$LFS_TGT                   \
+            --build=$(build-aux/config.guess) \
+            --disable-bootstrap               \
+            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/flex-&flex-version;</userinput></screen>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>--disable-bootstrap</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Normally, building flex is done in two stages. A first
+          programs, which is used to generate the source of a second one,
+          which is then compiled. When using cross-compilation, the first
+          program is generated on the build systemd. However, due to a bug
+          in configure, the presence of some funciton is tested only on the
+          host system. If this function is not found on the build system, the
+          build fails. This can be prevented by disabling the two stage
+          build.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
@@ -52 +74 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
-
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$LFS install</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>