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diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 2ffbe05d1..760fd8d3c 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ <itemizedlist> +<listitem><para>September 5th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapters 5 & 6: Added +notes to the gcc, binutils and glibc installations that these packages +behave badly when the default optimization flags are changed and should +be left alone.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>September 4th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6-Bzip2: Added ln command to create /lib/libbz2.so</para></listitem> diff --git a/chapter05/binutils-inst.xml b/chapter05/binutils-inst.xml index 6e6d242d2..5205ad482 100644 --- a/chapter05/binutils-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/binutils-inst.xml @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ <sect2> <title>Installation of Binutils</title> +<para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed it's default +optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Binutils is +best left alone, so we recommend you unsetting CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and other +such variables/settings that would change the default optimization that +it comes with.</para> + <para>Install Binutils by running the following commands:</para> <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr --disable-nls &&</userinput> diff --git a/chapter05/gcc-inst.xml b/chapter05/gcc-inst.xml index 253a12df8..575ee0141 100644 --- a/chapter05/gcc-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/gcc-inst.xml @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ <sect2> <title>Installation of GCC</title> +<para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed it's default +optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). GCC is best +left alone, so we recommend you unsetting CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and other +such variables/settings that would change the default optimization that +it comes with.</para> + <para>Install GCC by running the following commands:</para> <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-&gcc-patch-version;.patch &&</userinput> diff --git a/chapter06/binutils-inst.xml b/chapter06/binutils-inst.xml index 987568096..933fb83cc 100644 --- a/chapter06/binutils-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/binutils-inst.xml @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ <sect2><title>Installation of Binutils</title> +<para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed it's +default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Binutils +is best left alone, so we recommend you unsetting CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and other +such variables/settings that would change the default optimization that +it comes with.</para> + <para>Install Binutils by running the following commands:</para> <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared &&</userinput> diff --git a/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml b/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml index ae56e5ee4..2bc3a397c 100644 --- a/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ <sect2> <title>Installation of GCC</title> +<para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed it's default +optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). GCC is best +left alone, so we recommend you unsetting CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and other +such variables/settings that would change the default optimization that +it comes with.</para> + <para>Install GCC by running the following commands. These commands will build the C and C++ compiler. Other compilers are available within the gcc package. If you want to build all the other availble compilers too, diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml index 2f6326863..69e7e9813 100644 --- a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml @@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ glibc-&glibc-version; directory and unpack glibc-linuxthreads inside the glibc-&glibc-version; directory, not in /usr/src as you normally would do.</para> +<para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed it's default +optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Glibc is +best left alone, so we recommend you unsetting CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and other +such variables/settings that would change the default optimization that +it comes with.</para> + <para>Install Glibc by running the following commands:</para> <para><screen><userinput>mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3 &&</userinput> |