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authorPierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@neuf.fr>2022-08-14 21:11:46 +0200
committerPierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@neuf.fr>2022-08-14 21:11:46 +0200
commitd94f2d01a50466c98eaf92fc4e7c2ced50fdd91a (patch)
tree3b133f968a68985c1930dd8d1cc5aa0e3bc50fdf /chapter08
parentc25dd3fc1d39da40eeba7778f87dcb7f675090d7 (diff)
Clean chapter 8 binutils xml and text
Remove old commented instructions Remove a sed and a test failure explanation: both have been fixed in binutils-2.39
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter08')
-rw-r--r--chapter08/binutils.xml25
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/chapter08/binutils.xml b/chapter08/binutils.xml
index a7eb81048..d9855e735 100644
--- a/chapter08/binutils.xml
+++ b/chapter08/binutils.xml
@@ -56,29 +56,14 @@
<screen><computeroutput>The system has no more ptys.
Ask your system administrator to create more.</computeroutput></screen>
-<!--
- <para>Upstream has made a patch to fix a problem when using binutils
- for building some BLFS packages with Link Time Optimization (LTO)
- enabled. Apply that now:</para>
-
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&binutils-lto-patch;</userinput></screen>
--->
-<!--
- <para>An error in the building system causes the shipped man pages to
- be empty. Workaround the issue and remove the shipped man pages, so the
- man pages will be regenerated correctly:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '63d' etc/texi2pod.pl
-find -name \*.1 -delete</userinput></screen>
--->
-
+<!-- Fixed in binutils-2.39
<para>
Now make a fix identified upstream that affects building some packages:
</para>
<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e '/R_386_TLS_LE /i \ || (TYPE) == R_386_TLS_IE \\' \
-i ./bfd/elfxx-x86.h</userinput></screen>
-
+-->
<para>The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils
in a dedicated build directory:</para>
@@ -175,12 +160,12 @@ cd build</userinput></screen>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make -k check</userinput></screen>
- <!-- Will be fixed in 2.39
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=01ae03b -->
+ <!-- Fixed in 2.39
+ https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=01ae03b
<para>One gold test, <filename>pr17704a_test</filename>, is known to
fail if <parameter>CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION</parameter> is disabled in the
kernel configuration of the host system.</para>
-
+ -->
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make tooldir=/usr install</userinput></screen>