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author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-10-04 17:15:25 +0000 |
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committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-10-04 17:15:25 +0000 |
commit | 5bc82c5b1691953659286d9b75c1588b523f33a3 (patch) | |
tree | 9cc2dbca6e2ae1a16fa416bd7304a2c22d69f712 /chapter06 | |
parent | 93bc4a2875fdabce7ca6a338cfb04dc9aa04015f (diff) |
Rename the Linux Libc Headers pages
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7817 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r-- | chapter06/linux-headers.xml (renamed from chapter06/linux-libc-headers.xml) | 50 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/linux-libc-headers.xml b/chapter06/linux-headers.xml index e1fed38f6..1e30ed87f 100644 --- a/chapter06/linux-libc-headers.xml +++ b/chapter06/linux-headers.xml @@ -5,54 +5,50 @@ %general-entities; ]> -<sect1 id="ch-system-linux-libc-headers" role="wrap"> - <?dbhtml filename="linux-libc-headers.html"?> +<sect1 id="ch-system-linux-headers" role="wrap"> + <?dbhtml filename="linux-headers.html"?> - <title>Linux-Libc-Headers-&linux-libc-headers-version;</title> + <title>Linux-Headers-&linux-version;</title> - <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-libc-headers"> - <primary sortas="a-Linux-Libc-Headers">Linux-Libc-Headers</primary> + <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-headers"> + <primary sortas="a-Linux-Headers">Linux-Headers</primary> </indexterm> <sect2 role="package"> <title/> - <para>The Linux-Libc-Headers package contains the - <quote>sanitized</quote> kernel headers.</para> + <para>The Linux-Headers expose the kernel's API for use by Glibc.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> <seglistitem> - <seg>&linux-libc-headers-ch6-sbu;</seg> - <seg>&linux-libc-headers-ch6-du;</seg> + <seg>&linux-headers-ch6-sbu;</seg> + <seg>&linux-headers-ch6-du;</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> - <title>Installation of Linux-Libc-Headers</title> + <title>Installation of Linux-Headers</title> - <para>For years it has been common practice to use <quote>raw</quote> - kernel headers (straight from a kernel tarball) in <filename - class="directory">/usr/include</filename>, but over the last few - years, the kernel developers have taken a strong stance that this - should not be done. This gave birth to the Linux-Libc-Headers Project, - which was designed to maintain an API stable version of the Linux - headers.</para> + <para>The Linux kernel needs to expose an Application Programming Interface + (API) for the system's C library (Glibc in LFS) to utilize. This is done + by way of sanitizing various C header files that are shipped in the Linux + kernel source tarball.</para> - <para>Add a userspace header and syscall support for the inotify feature - available in newer Linux kernels:</para> + <para>Apply the following patch to provide <command>unifdef</command>, which + the installation of the kernel headers requires:</para> -<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&linux-inotify-patch;</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../linux-&linux-version;-unifdef-1.patch</userinput></screen> <para>Install the header files:</para> -<screen><userinput>install -dv /usr/include/asm -cp -Rv include/asm-i386/* /usr/include/asm -cp -Rv include/linux /usr/include</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput>make mrproper +make headers_check +make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr headers_install</userinput></screen> <para>Ensure that all the headers are owned by root:</para> @@ -65,8 +61,8 @@ find /usr/include/{asm,linux} -type f -exec chmod -v 644 {} \;</userinput></scre </sect2> - <sect2 id="contents-linux-libc-headers" role="content"> - <title>Contents of Linux-Libc-Headers</title> + <sect2 id="contents-linux-headers" role="content"> + <title>Contents of Linux-Headers</title> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>Installed headers</segtitle> @@ -81,11 +77,11 @@ find /usr/include/{asm,linux} -type f -exec chmod -v 644 {} \;</userinput></scre <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> - <varlistentry id="linux-libc-headers"> + <varlistentry id="linux-headers"> <term><filename class="headerfile">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</filename></term> <listitem> <para>The Linux API headers</para> - <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-libc-headers linux-libc-headers"> + <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-headers linux-headers"> <primary sortas="e-/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</primary> </indexterm> </listitem> |