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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/gcc-exp.xml | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/gcc-inst.xml | 3 |
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index ddd5f9fe5..4c7f1906a 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> +<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC: Added the +<emphasis>--enable-clocale=gnu</emphasis> option to ensure the proper +locale mode is used by the C++ libraries.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>September 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface: Grammatic changes.</para></listitem> diff --git a/chapter06/gcc-exp.xml b/chapter06/gcc-exp.xml index b05214795..38ce93aa5 100644 --- a/chapter06/gcc-exp.xml +++ b/chapter06/gcc-exp.xml @@ -5,5 +5,15 @@ in C++ shared libraries and C++ programs that are interoperable with other linux distributions.</para> +<para><userinput>--enable-clocale=gnu:</userinput> There is a risk that +some people will build ABI incompatible C++ libraries if they didn't install +all the glibc localedata. Using --enable-clocale=gnu ensures that the "right +thing" is done in all cases. If you don't want to use this option and don't +want to build all the locales, then at least make sure you installed the +<emphasis>de_DE</emphasis> locale with Glibc, since that's the specific locale +GCC will check for to determine which locale mode to use (if de_DE is +found, <emphasis>gnu</emphasis> mode is used, which is the corrent one to +use).</para> + </sect2> diff --git a/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml b/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml index a3a024a4f..3a3b4b2c5 100644 --- a/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ mkdir ../gcc-build && cd ../gcc-build && ../gcc-&gcc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared \ --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-threads=posix \ - --with-slibdir=/lib --enable-__cxa_atexit && + --with-slibdir=/lib --enable-__cxa_atexit \ + --enable-clocale=gnu && make bootstrap && make install && ln -s ../usr/bin/cpp /lib && |