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| author | Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-12-26 19:00:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-12-26 19:00:06 +0000 |
| commit | 5536f7440f2f4a12782e8d741cbbba5f1c3cfea8 (patch) | |
| tree | a0f3a22ecc9c0eedfd891d54e9acf06502d2b07f /chapter05/glibc.xml | |
| parent | 2550494b85359ff42bb95a72911c7751cbce14d4 (diff) | |
Applied Alexander Patrakov's patch which adds UTF-8 capability to the
development branch of the LFS Book.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7235 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter05/glibc.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/glibc.xml | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/chapter05/glibc.xml b/chapter05/glibc.xml index 51d44ad24..68fd4ce01 100644 --- a/chapter05/glibc.xml +++ b/chapter05/glibc.xml @@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Glibc</title> +<para>The glibc-libidn tarball adds support for internationalized +(non-ASCII) domain names to Glibc. While this facility is not +useful in this chapter, the installation commands of +<xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/> +glibc (wrongly) check <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/> glibc for +this feature. Unpack the tarball from within the Glibc source +directory in order to avoid this bogus failure:</para> + +<screen><userinput>tar jxf ../glibc-libidn-&glibc-version;.tar.bz2</userinput></screen> +<!-- TODO: DIY Linux modifies the installation check script in Chapte 6 instead --> + <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source directory in a dedicated build directory:</para> @@ -36,7 +47,7 @@ cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen> <para>Next, prepare Glibc for compilation:</para> <screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/tools \ - --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \ + --disable-profile --enable-add-ons=nptl,libidn \ --enable-kernel=2.6.0 --with-binutils=/tools/bin \ --without-gd --with-headers=/tools/include \ --without-selinux</userinput></screen> @@ -52,9 +63,9 @@ necessary.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> -<term><parameter>--enable-add-ons</parameter></term> +<term><parameter>--enable-add-ons=nptl,libidn</parameter></term> <listitem><para>This tells Glibc to use the NPTL add-on as its threading -library.</para></listitem> +library, and adds support for non-ASCII domain names.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |