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| author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-06-19 22:01:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-06-19 22:01:05 +0000 |
| commit | deaf14affce0ab7ad78f44a7939c7e0d52f596d2 (patch) | |
| tree | edf9043f47fcfde2104b0c188093f70875a22fe5 | |
| parent | d8277eac7793b484a13a58d5c2948bb39db1dbb7 (diff) | |
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
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/hostreqs.xml | 21 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 70ccf3a63..aa9244fc1 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log.</para> </itemizedlist> </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> diff --git a/chapter05/hostreqs.xml b/chapter05/hostreqs.xml index d970ef56a..fb34e8db7 100644 --- a/chapter05/hostreqs.xml +++ b/chapter05/hostreqs.xml @@ -19,12 +19,19 @@ recently has support for this file system been implemented in most of the kernel drivers, however. We must be sure that all the critical system devices get 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> |