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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-09-05 14:13:36 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-09-05 14:13:36 +0000
commitb43aab15735430e5973ca9022bcde67bccbc7ff5 (patch)
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parent5dff45e4a356d9475c830493a29bdecf721fcfeb (diff)
Added notes that gcc, binutils and glibc behave badly when optimized and
thus should be left alone. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1172 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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-rw-r--r--chapter06/binutils-inst.xml6
-rw-r--r--chapter06/gcc-inst.xml6
-rw-r--r--chapter06/glibc-inst.xml6
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diff --git a/chapter06/binutils-inst.xml b/chapter06/binutils-inst.xml
index 987568096..933fb83cc 100644
--- a/chapter06/binutils-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/binutils-inst.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
<sect2><title>Installation of Binutils</title>
+<para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed it's
+default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Binutils
+is best left alone, so we recommend you unsetting CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and other
+such variables/settings that would change the default optimization that
+it comes with.</para>
+
<para>Install Binutils by running the following commands:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared &amp;&amp;</userinput>
diff --git a/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml b/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml
index ae56e5ee4..2bc3a397c 100644
--- a/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
<sect2>
<title>Installation of GCC</title>
+<para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed it's default
+optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). GCC is best
+left alone, so we recommend you unsetting CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and other
+such variables/settings that would change the default optimization that
+it comes with.</para>
+
<para>Install GCC by running the following commands. These commands will build
the C and C++ compiler. Other compilers are available within the gcc
package. If you want to build all the other availble compilers too,
diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
index 2f6326863..69e7e9813 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ glibc-&glibc-version; directory and unpack glibc-linuxthreads inside
the glibc-&glibc-version; directory, not in /usr/src as you normally
would do.</para>
+<para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed it's default
+optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Glibc is
+best left alone, so we recommend you unsetting CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and other
+such variables/settings that would change the default optimization that
+it comes with.</para>
+
<para>Install Glibc by running the following commands:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3 &amp;&amp;</userinput>