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diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml b/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml index bd2bab1d2..6efbae47a 100644 --- a/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml +++ b/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml @@ -1,28 +1,24 @@ <sect2> <title>Command explanations</title> +<para><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../glibc-&glibc-version;.patch:</userinput> +This patch converts all occurances of <filename>$(PERL)</filename> to +<filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename> in the +<filename>malloc/Makefile</filename> file. This is done because Glibc can't +autodetect the location of perl because perl has yet to be installed. The +patch also replaces all occurances of <emphasis>root</emphasis> with +<emphasis>0</emphasis> in the <filename>login/Makefile</filename> file. +This is done because Glibc itself isn't installed yet and therefore +username to userid resolving isn't working yet, so a <userinput>chown root +file</userinput> will fail, however it'll work fine if you use straight +IDs.</para> + <para><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf:</userinput> One of the final steps of the Glibc installation is running ldconfig to update the dynamic loader cache. If this file doesn't exist, the installation will abort with an error that it can't read the file, so we simply create an empty file (the empty file will have Glibc default to using /lib and /usr/lib which is fine).</para> -<para><userinput>sed 's%\$(PERL)%/usr/bin/perl%' -malloc/Makefile.backup > malloc/Makefile:</userinput> This sed command -searches through <filename>malloc/Makefile.backup</filename> and -converts all occurrences of <filename>$(PERL)</filename> to -<filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename>. The output is then written to the -original <filename>malloc/Makefile.in</filename> which is used during -configuration. This is done because Glibc can't autodetect perl since -it hasn't been installed yet.</para> - -<para><userinput>sed 's/root/0' login/Makefile.backup > -login/Makefile:</userinput> This sed command replaces all occurrences of -<filename>root</filename> in <filename>login/Makefile.backup</filename> -with 0. This is necessary because we don't have glibc on the LFS system yet, so -user names can't be resolved to their user IDs. Therefore, we replace -the user name "root" with user ID 0.</para> - <para><userinput>--enable-add-ons:</userinput> This enables the add-on that we install with Glibc: linuxthreads</para> |