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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-10-04 17:15:25 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-10-04 17:15:25 +0000
commit5bc82c5b1691953659286d9b75c1588b523f33a3 (patch)
tree9cc2dbca6e2ae1a16fa416bd7304a2c22d69f712 /chapter06
parent93bc4a2875fdabce7ca6a338cfb04dc9aa04015f (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>