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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/glibc-inst.xml | 4 |
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 2425ae63e..59f6d0403 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> +<listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added some notes regarding failed +tests to glibc and dejagnu.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Glibc - Added commands to both chapter 5 and 6 to include minimum locales necessary for checks.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Removed zlib's diff --git a/chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml b/chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml index c1794e6ac..4a22085f9 100644 --- a/chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/dejagnu-inst.xml @@ -13,7 +13,11 @@ make install</userinput></screen></para> <para>This completes the testing tools. We can now rebuild GCC and Binutils -to link them against the new Glibc, and test them properly.</para> +to link them against the new Glibc, and test them properly. One thing to note, +however, is that these test suites are highly dependent on the features +supported by your host distribution. Most notably, a host distribution which +does not properly support the devpts filesystem will cause most of these tests +to fail.</para> </sect2> diff --git a/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml index b76027bc8..61dc8bb83 100644 --- a/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/glibc-inst.xml @@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ would require you to regenerate the binary files.</para> make check make install</userinput></screen></para> +<para>The glibc make check process is highly dependent on certain functions +of your host operating system. The most common is a host that fails to mount +a tmpfs filesystem at /dev/shm, which may cause glibc tests to fail.</para> + <para>The locales (used by Glibc to make your Linux system respond in a different language) weren't installed when you ran the previous command, so we have to do that ourselves now:</para> |