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authorJim Gifford <jim@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-12-03 18:29:38 +0000
committerJim Gifford <jim@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-12-03 18:29:38 +0000
commit509125143a054af2785ac0d66e1a457981962040 (patch)
treed2b0ca050c4694481a8cb02be8b77ec0841e717e /chapter06
parent266a7bd267207b0d679b4f849f34b3aad892363e (diff)
Updates: zlib, readline Upgrade: perl to 5.8.6
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4344 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/readline.xml14
-rw-r--r--chapter06/zlib.xml22
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/readline.xml b/chapter06/readline.xml
index 5ce6413ba..64feb87a0 100644
--- a/chapter06/readline.xml
+++ b/chapter06/readline.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ sometimes will only show 33 characters on a line and then wrap to the next line.
<para>Prepare Readline for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
@@ -47,17 +47,11 @@ sometimes will only show 33 characters on a line and then wrap to the next line.
<para>Give Readline's dynamic libraries to a more appropriate permissions:</para>
-<screen><userinput>chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&readline-version;</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>chmod 755 /lib/lib{readline.history}.so*</userinput></screen>
-<para>And move them to a more appropriate location:</para>
+<para>Now we move them static libraries to a more appropriate location:</para>
-<screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/lib{readline,history}.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen>
-
-<para>Because the libraries have been moved, a few symlinks are now pointing to
-non-existent files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libhistory.so.5 /usr/lib/libhistory.so
-ln -sf ../../lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>mv /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
diff --git a/chapter06/zlib.xml b/chapter06/zlib.xml
index 8aa195b62..f32d235e8 100644
--- a/chapter06/zlib.xml
+++ b/chapter06/zlib.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ afterwards.</para></note>
<para>Prepare Zlib for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --shared</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --shared --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
@@ -66,26 +66,6 @@ make</userinput></screen>
<screen><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libz.a</userinput></screen>
-<para>It is good policy and common practice to place important libraries into
-the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory. This matters most
-in scenarios where <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> is on a
-separate partition. Essentially, the run-time components of any libraries that
-are used by programs in <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> or
-<filename class="directory">/sbin</filename> should reside in
-<filename class="directory">/lib</filename> so that they are on the root
-partition and available in the event of
-<filename class="directory">/usr</filename> being inaccessible.</para>
-
-<para>For the above reason we move the run-time components of the shared Zlib
-into <filename class="directory">/lib</filename>:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/libz.so.* /lib</userinput></screen>
-
-<para>Now we need to fix the <filename class="symlink">/usr/lib/libz.so</filename> symlink
-because we just moved the file it points to:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libz.so.1 /usr/lib/libz.so</userinput></screen>
-
</sect2>