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<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>
-<para><userinput>make BOOT_LDFLAGS=-static:</userinput>
-This is the equivalent to make LDFLAGS=-static as we use with other
-packages to compile them statically.</para>
+<para><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-&gcc-patch-version;.patch:</userinput>
+This patch fixes a few bug fixes. See
+<ulink url="http://www.zipworld.com.au/~gschafer/lfs-tweaks.html"/> for
+more details.</para>
<para><userinput>--prefix=/static:</userinput> This is NOT a typo. GCC hard
codes some paths while compiling and so we need to pass /static as the
@@ -18,9 +19,13 @@ the --enable-languages parameter may be omitted.</para>
<para><userinput>--enable-threads=posix:</userinput> This enables C++
exception handling for multithreaded code.</para>
-<para><userinput>echo "#define HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN 1":</userinput>
-This defines the .hidden assembler directive so that we don't build
-a faulty Glibc later on.</para>
+<para><userinput>--enable-__cxa-atexit:</userinput> This option will result
+in C++ shared libraries and C++ programs that are interoperable with other
+linux distributions.</para>
+
+<para><userinput>make BOOT_LDFLAGS=-static:</userinput>
+This is the equivalent to make LDFLAGS=-static as we use with other
+packages to compile them statically.</para>
<para><userinput>ln -s gcc $LFS/static/bin/cc:</userinput> This
creates the $LFS/static/bin/gcc symlink which some packages need.</para>