Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
#815 closed defect (fixed)
No packages of glibc-2.3.3 on gnu site
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | CVS |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
The glibc instructions is a bit wrong and also missing some description.
On this page: http://lfs.oregonstate.edu/lfs/view/cvs/chapter05/glibc.html This snippet is wrong:
Official download location for Glibc (2.3.3): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/
The latest package on that site is 2.3.2
Maybe there could be a description of how to suck down the cvs version. And how to find out which is the latest version.
On this page: http://lfs.oregonstate.edu/lfs/view/cvs/chapter06/glibc.html The same as the above applies and further the configure switch: --without-cvs Is not explained.
It could be explained like this:
--without-cvs: This is meant to prevent the Makefiles from attempting automatic CVS checkouts when using a CVS snapshot. But it's not actually needed these days. We use it because it suppresses an annoying but harmless warning about a missing autoconf program.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 20 years ago
comment:2 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Already fixed in newxml by virtue of the fact that download locations were removed from chapters 5 & 6 (they're listed once in chapter 3). There's a note on that page explaining the situation as it stands. This is as good as we can do IMO. Marking as Fixed.
Not sure how to address this one - ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc is the official download site - it's not our fault that the glibc maintainers have decided not to do tarballs anymore.