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| author | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2016-04-07 20:28:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2016-04-07 20:28:40 +0000 |
| commit | 98bed7f8bbc60fcb95f171eefcf70b11ad8628fc (patch) | |
| tree | d61f8959a76cfac3c4ae1b0ee2caa0478a44dee9 /chapter06/gmp.xml | |
| parent | d73074290425cf0fbe7e7ee6cb1d8c1b86a31533 (diff) | |
Add a caution in the gmp section about possible
"Illegal Instruction" errors if the host is misidentified
or the libraries are copied to different systems.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11044 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06/gmp.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/gmp.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/gmp.xml b/chapter06/gmp.xml index 7d353d90c..da655db6a 100644 --- a/chapter06/gmp.xml +++ b/chapter06/gmp.xml @@ -90,6 +90,13 @@ make html</userinput></screen> <para>Test the results:</para> <screen><userinput remap="test">make check 2>&1 | tee gmp-check-log</userinput></screen> + + <caution><para>The code in gmp is highly optimized for the processor where + it is built. Occasionally the code that detects the processor misidentifies + the system capabilities and there will be errors in the tests or other + applications using the gmp libraries with the message "Illegal + instruction". In this case, gmp should be reconfigured with the option + --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and rebuilt.</para></caution> <para>Ensure that all 190 tests in the test suite passed. Check the results by issuing the following command:</para> |