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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/glibc.xml | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/glibc.xml | 8 |
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diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 0f454eb96..b7799ba2a 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -38,6 +38,17 @@ --> <listitem> + <para>2009-06-11</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[bryan] - Add a sed to glibc to fix the constants passed + to futex(2) in 32-bit builds with certain --enable-kernel values, + including our 2.6.18.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>2009-06-06</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> diff --git a/chapter05/glibc.xml b/chapter05/glibc.xml index 23255dfa2..e6738437f 100644 --- a/chapter05/glibc.xml +++ b/chapter05/glibc.xml @@ -43,6 +43,16 @@ <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Glibc</title> + <!-- This sed can be removed for any glibc newer than 2.10.1 (along with the + matching sed in chapter 6). See glibc bug 10262. --> + <para>Fix an error in the constants that get passed to the futex system + call in some cases, causing certain pthread_mutex operations to fail:</para> + +<screen><userinput remap="pre">cp nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i486/lowlevellock.S{,.orig} +sed -e 's/FUTEX_WAIT\( | FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, reg\)/FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET\1/' \ + <nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i486/lowlevellock.S.orig \ + >nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i486/lowlevellock.S</userinput></screen> + <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source directory in a dedicated build directory:</para> diff --git a/chapter06/glibc.xml b/chapter06/glibc.xml index 7089efbf0..9aee47585 100644 --- a/chapter06/glibc.xml +++ b/chapter06/glibc.xml @@ -108,6 +108,14 @@ unset DL</userinput></screen> sed -i '/tst-fgetws-ENV/ a\ tst-fgetwc-ENV = LOCPATH=$(common-objpfx)localedata' libio/Makefile</userinput></screen> + <!-- This sed can be removed for any glibc newer than 2.10.1 (along with the + matching sed in chapter 5). See glibc bug 10262. --> + <para>Fix an error in the constants that get passed to the futex system + call in some cases, causing certain pthread_mutex operations to fail:</para> + +<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's/FUTEX_WAIT\( | FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, reg\)/FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET\1/' \ + nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i486/lowlevellock.S</userinput></screen> + <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source directory in a dedicated build directory:</para> |