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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-10-18 19:00:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-10-18 19:00:18 +0000 |
| commit | ac68bd3dd24482c0d2e4ddcebf2eaaf6f7d6e7ed (patch) | |
| tree | 5bc1a9c273939701ada590c8f01717860f7c873b /chapter05 | |
| parent | d0669248317c450ef2c0d983499181194eb93a4f (diff) | |
added fixincludes explanation
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2180 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/gcc-exp.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/chapter05/gcc-exp.xml b/chapter05/gcc-exp.xml index 764419fcf..5cbf63610 100644 --- a/chapter05/gcc-exp.xml +++ b/chapter05/gcc-exp.xml @@ -7,7 +7,17 @@ This patch fixes a few bugs. In particular it contains the "copy fix" and <ulink url="http://www.zipworld.com.au/~gschafer/lfs-tweaks.html"/>.</para> <para><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-3.2-nofixincludes-2.patch:</userinput> -This prevents the fixincludes script from running.</para> +This prevents the fixincludes script from running. This is needed because +under normal circumstances the GCC installation will run the fixincludes +scripts which scans your system for header files that need to be fixed. Say +it finds Glibc header files. It will fix them and will end up in +$LFS/static/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2. Later on in chapter 6 you +will install Glibc which will install header files in /usr/include. Next +you will install other programs which will use Glibc headers. GCC will look +in /static/lib/gcc-lib before looking in /usr/include, whichhas the result +of Glibc header files from your host distribution being found and used which +are probably incompatible with the Glibc version actually in use on the LFS +system.</para> <para><userinput>--prefix=/static:</userinput> This is NOT a typo. GCC hard codes some paths while compiling and so we need to pass /static as the |