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| author | Jeremy Utley <jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-09 20:59:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeremy Utley <jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-09 20:59:10 +0000 |
| commit | 431f48d1b8cb6cbd73be48f4096798f4d1a4cca5 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a44780841fadf6d51f27861b36e4439ce4f07ba /chapter05 | |
| parent | c825bdcb3e7a8cd3aa09e6e5d8a82d953d311987 (diff) | |
Added some notes regarding failed tests
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2756 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/glibc-inst.xml | 4 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml b/chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml index c1794e6ac..4a22085f9 100644 --- a/chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml @@ -13,7 +13,11 @@ make install</userinput></screen></para> <para>This completes the testing tools. We can now rebuild GCC and Binutils -to link them against the new Glibc, and test them properly.</para> +to link them against the new Glibc, and test them properly. One thing to note, +however, is that these test suites are highly dependent on the features +supported by your host distribution. Most notably, a host distribution which +does not properly support the devpts filesystem will cause most of these tests +to fail.</para> </sect2> diff --git a/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml index b76027bc8..61dc8bb83 100644 --- a/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml @@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ would require you to regenerate the binary files.</para> make check make install</userinput></screen></para> +<para>The glibc make check process is highly dependent on certain functions +of your host operating system. The most common is a host that fails to mount +a tmpfs filesystem at /dev/shm, which may cause glibc tests to fail.</para> + <para>The locales (used by Glibc to make your Linux system respond in a different language) weren't installed when you ran the previous command, so we have to do that ourselves now:</para> |