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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-05-21 18:43:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-05-21 18:43:13 +0000 |
| commit | 1179ee92d239aef2a357f7742913c2fef02d05f3 (patch) | |
| tree | 09cd725baeb69e5096c51305729ab94135387287 | |
| parent | 6198a8c32219badfc1628a1b72568e74e0e30e91 (diff) | |
Applied Zack's glibc patch
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2622 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/glibc-inst.xml | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/glibc-inst.xml | 27 |
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 58c44a39d..5fd11ab5f 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> +<listitem><para>May 15th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing +Glibc: Create an ld.so.conf file before building Glibc, to prevent an +(harmless) error.</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>May 15th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc: +Don't bother doing the 'exec /stage1/bin/bash' stuff, it doesn't do anything +now that we use PLFS.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Installing Coreutils: Only test the non-root stuff in Chapter 05, but test everything in Chapter 06.</para></listitem> diff --git a/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml index 0758ae04f..499b2ae02 100644 --- a/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml @@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ them when building Glibc.</para> <para>Basically, compiling Glibc in any other way than the book suggests is putting your system at a very high risk.</para> +<para>Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will +complain about the presence of /etc/ld.so.conf (or lack thereof). Fix +this annoying little error:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>mkdir /stage1/etc +touch /stage1/etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen></para> + <para>The documentation that comes with Glibc recommends to build the package not in the source directory but in a separate, dedicated directory:</para> diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml index 19947774b..a55ad8e94 100644 --- a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml @@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen></para> <para><screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \ --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \ - --libexecdir=/usr/bin \ - --with-headers=/usr/include</userinput></screen></para> + --libexecdir=/usr/bin --with-headers=/usr/include</userinput></screen></para> <para>The meaning of the configure options are:</para> @@ -31,23 +30,6 @@ cause the <filename>pt_chown</filename> program to be installed in the <filename>/usr/bin</filename> directory.</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> -<para>During this stage you will see the following warning:</para> - -<blockquote><screen>configure: warning: -*** These auxiliary programs are missing or too old: msgfmt -*** some features will be disabled. -*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</screen></blockquote> - -<para>The missing <filename>msgfmt</filename> program (from the Gettext -package, which we'll install later) won't cause any problems. The -<filename>msgfmt</filename> is used to generate the binary translation -files that can make your system talk in a different language. Because these -translation files have already been generated for you, there is no need for -<filename>msgfmt</filename>. You'd only need the program if you change the -translation source files (the <filename>*.po</filename> files in the -<filename class="directory">po</filename> subdirectory), which -would require you to regenerate the binary files.</para> - <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para> <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para> @@ -81,12 +63,5 @@ file in the <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;</filename> tree.</para> <para><screen><userinput>make -C ../glibc-2.3.2/linuxthreads/man install</userinput></screen></para> -<para>To finish off the installation we'll reload Bash so it will use the new -<filename>libnss_*</filename> files. This will also get rid of the -<emphasis>I have no name!</emphasis> message in the command prompt:</para> - -<para><screen><userinput>exec /stage1/bin/bash --login -set +h</userinput></screen></para> - </sect2> |