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authorPierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-06-19 08:13:06 +0000
committerPierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-06-19 08:13:06 +0000
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treecec90ca77e79adcfb31a8809f45511b3aef4e05f /chapter08/glibc.xml
parent8072d3da7696d50bc0535ca188d892dc12ed1dab (diff)
Various text fixes:
- a wrong chapter in toolchain notes, and various text precisions the option explanations of chapter 8 glibc (was labelled WIP) git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11961 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter08/glibc.xml b/chapter08/glibc.xml
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@@ -65,27 +65,24 @@ cd build</userinput></screen>
--with-headers=/usr/include \
libc_cv_slibdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
- <!-- WIP -->
<variablelist>
- <title>The meaning of the options and new configure parameters:</title>
-<!--
+ <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+
<varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>CC="gcc -ffile-prefix-map=$LFS_DIR=$DIR"</parameter></term>
+ <term><parameter>--disable-werror</parameter></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Make GCC record any references to files in <filename
- class="directory">/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu</filename>
- in result of the compilation as if the files resided in <filename
- class="directory">/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</filename>.
- This avoids introduction of invalid paths in debugging
- symbols.</para>
+ <para>This option disables the -Werror option passed to
+ GCC. This is necessary for running the test suite.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
--->
+
<varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>--disable-werror</parameter></term>
+ <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=&min-kernel;</parameter></term>
<listitem>
- <para>This option disables the -Werror option passed to
- GCC. This is necessary for running the test suite.</para>
+ <para>This option tells the build system that this glibc may
+ be used with kernels as old as &min-kernel;. This means generating
+ workarounds in case a system call introduced in a later version
+ cannot be used.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>