Remove obsolete note about iconv() in Chapter 6 Glibc.

Minor adjustments to text in the same section.

Add a note about UEFI and Secure Boot to Chapter 8 
"Using GRUB to Set Up the Boot Process".

Add notes about paths for 64-bit systems in 
Chapter 6 "Adjusting the Toolchain".
+  


git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11043 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 45 deletions

diff --git a/chapter06/glibc.xml b/chapter06/glibc.xml
index a835f218f..26adf6dac 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
-
+<!--
     <note>
       <para>Some packages outside of LFS suggest installing GNU libiconv in
       order to translate data from one encoding to another. The project's
@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@
       an <function>iconv()</function> implementation and can convert from/to
       Unicode, therefore libiconv is not required on an LFS system.</para>
     </note>
+-->
+    <note><para>The Glibc build system is self-contained and will install
+    perfectly, even though the compiler specs file and linker are still
+    pointing to <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>. The specs
+    and linker cannot be adjusted before the Glibc install because the
+    Glibc autoconf tests would give false results and defeat the goal
+    of achieving a clean build.</para></note>
 
     <para>Some of the Glibc programs use non-FHS compilant
     <filename class="directory">/var/db</filename> directory to store
@@ -61,26 +68,6 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-fhs-patch;</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>The Glibc build system is self-contained and will install
-    perfectly, even though the compiler specs file and linker are still
-    pointing at <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>. The specs
-    and linker cannot be adjusted before the Glibc install because the
-    Glibc autoconf tests would give false results and defeat the goal
-    of achieving a clean build.</para>
-<!--
-    <para>Now fix a build problem that affects i386 systems:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-upstream-patch;</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>The most recent stable version of Glibc does not handle large files
-    correctly.  Fix the problem with this patch:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-largefile-patch;</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>Finally, update some recent changes from the upstream repository:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-upstream-patch2;</userinput></screen>
--->
     <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc 
     in a dedicated build directory:</para>
 
@@ -138,28 +125,8 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
         <emphasis>nptl/tst-thread-affinity-{pthread,pthread2,sched}</emphasis>
         tests may fail for reasons that have not been determined.  </para>
       </listitem>
-<!--
-      <listitem>
-        <para>The <emphasis>elf/tst-protected1a</emphasis> and
-        <emphasis>elf/tst-protected1b</emphasis> tests are known to
-        fail with the current stable version of binutils.</para>
-      </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
-        <para>When running on older and slower hardware or on systems under
-        load, some tests can fail because of test timeouts being exceeded.
-        Modifying the make check command to set a TIMEOUTFACTOR is reported to
-        help eliminate these errors (e.g. <command>TIMEOUTFACTOR=16
-        make -k check</command>).</para>
-      </listitem>
--->
-<!--
-      <listitem>
-        <para>libio/tst-ftell-partial-wide.out fails because it needs a locale
-        that has not yet been generated.</para>
-      </listitem>
--->
-      <listitem>
         <para>Other tests known to fail on some architectures are
         malloc/tst-malloc-usable and nptl/tst-cleanupx4. </para>
       </listitem>
@@ -182,10 +149,10 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
 <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v ../nscd/nscd.conf /etc/nscd.conf
 mkdir -pv /var/cache/nscd</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>The locales that can make the system respond in a different language
-    were not installed by the above command. None of the locales are required,
-    but if some of them are missing, test suites of the future packages would
-    skip important testcases.</para>
+    <para>Next, install the locales that can make the system respond in a
+    different language.  None of the locales are required, but if some of them
+    are missing, the test suites of future packages would skip important
+    testcases.</para>
 
     <para>Individual locales can be installed using the
     <command>localedef</command> program. E.g., the first