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-rw-r--r--chapter06/gcc.xml14
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index bdb8234bc..bc3d3453c 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@
<para>2010-07-26</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[matthew] - Make GCC use the system-wide copy of Zlib rather
+ than its bundled version. Fixes
+ <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2718">#2718</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.12. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2717">#2717</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/gcc.xml b/chapter06/gcc.xml
index 050c57a3b..cd41bce89 100644
--- a/chapter06/gcc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/gcc.xml
@@ -78,12 +78,24 @@ cd ../gcc-build</userinput></screen>
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-shared \
--enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit \
--enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++ \
- --disable-multilib --disable-bootstrap</userinput></screen>
+ --disable-multilib --disable-bootstrap --with-system-zlib</userinput></screen>
<para>Note that for other languages, there are some prerequisites that
are not available. See the BLFS Book for instructions on how to
build all the GCC supported languages.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--with-system-zlib</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This switch tells GCC to link to the system installed copy of
+ the Zlib library, rather than its own internl copy.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>