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authorJeremy Utley <jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-12-04 20:53:03 +0000
committerJeremy Utley <jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-12-04 20:53:03 +0000
commitaf133c3f42ecfac2892e1cd1eaf202575e932502 (patch)
tree2c202fba99d9004dd39b2ff5f4e6ce16618d75b0 /chapter06
parent0a324b5241f112b6929ebd85591226ef7eb2d1bb (diff)
Added new binutils fix_strip patch taken from upstream
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4354 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/binutils.xml7
-rw-r--r--chapter06/devices.xml9
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/binutils.xml b/chapter06/binutils.xml
index 2dc90cb84..8a35d49a3 100644
--- a/chapter06/binutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/binutils.xml
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override
default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend un-setting
or modifying them when building Binutils.</para>
+<para>The current version of Binutils in use has a bug that causes strip to
+remove necessary information from certain library files. This patch fixes
+the problem:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../binutils-&binutils-version;-fix_strip-1.patc
+h</userinput></screen>
+
<para>The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils outside of the
source directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/devices.xml b/chapter06/devices.xml
index 557b0d2c3..dc5de88b8 100644
--- a/chapter06/devices.xml
+++ b/chapter06/devices.xml
@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ created:</para>
<screen><userinput>mount -t devpts -o gid=4,mode=620 none /dev/pts
mount -t tmpfs none /dev/shm</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>The <command>mount</command> commands executed above may result in the
+following warning message:</para>
+
+<screen><computeroutput>can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory.</computeroutput></screen>
+
+<para>This file&mdash;<filename>/etc/fstab</filename>&mdash;has not
+been created yet but is also not required for the file systems to be
+properly mounted. As such, the warning can be safely ignored.</para>
</sect2>