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Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/binutils-pass2.xml | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/coreutils.xml | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/ncurses.xml | 6 |
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/binutils-pass2.xml b/chapter06/binutils-pass2.xml index 7b0f1fc20..983aaee2f 100644 --- a/chapter06/binutils-pass2.xml +++ b/chapter06/binutils-pass2.xml @@ -43,11 +43,17 @@ <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Binutils</title> - <!-- Don't remove this until Binutils upstream updates the libtool - copy. On some host distros the issue doesn't show up. --> - <para>Binutils ships an outdated copy of libtool in the tarball. It lacks - sysroot support, so the produced binaries will be mistakenly linked to - libraries from the host distro. Work around this issue:</para> + <!-- Don't remove this until Binutils upstream resolves this issue. + We can test by building Binutils on a complete system with + zlib (libz.so) installed, passing enable-shared and + without-system-zlib. If the resulted libctf.so still links against + libz.so (check with readelf -d) despite we are saying + without-system-zlib, then the issue is still unresolved. --> + <para>Binutils building system relies on an shipped libtool copy to link against + internal static libraries, but the libiberty and zlib copies shipped + in the package do not use libtool. This inconsistency may cause + produced binaries mistakenly linked against libraries from the host + distro. Work around this issue:</para> <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed '6009s/$add_dir//' -i ltmain.sh</userinput></screen> diff --git a/chapter06/coreutils.xml b/chapter06/coreutils.xml index d3afe3918..f6b6c6310 100644 --- a/chapter06/coreutils.xml +++ b/chapter06/coreutils.xml @@ -43,17 +43,13 @@ <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Coreutils</title> -<!-- -<screen><userinput remap="configure">export gl_cv_macro_MB_CUR_MAX_good=y</userinput></screen> ---> <para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para> <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \ --host=$LFS_TGT \ --build=$(build-aux/config.guess) \ --enable-install-program=hostname \ - --enable-no-install-program=kill,uptime \ - gl_cv_macro_MB_CUR_MAX_good=y</userinput></screen> + --enable-no-install-program=kill,uptime</userinput></screen> <variablelist> <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title> @@ -67,13 +63,6 @@ </listitem> </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><envar>gl_cv_macro_MB_CUR_MAX_good=y</envar></term> - <listitem> - <para>This is needed to work around an issue in the gnulib copy - shipped by the package which would break cross compilation.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> </variablelist> <para>Compile the package:</para> diff --git a/chapter06/ncurses.xml b/chapter06/ncurses.xml index 9e7764ecf..8d7c8b1fe 100644 --- a/chapter06/ncurses.xml +++ b/chapter06/ncurses.xml @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ popd</userinput></screen> <varlistentry> <term><parameter>--with-manpage-format=normal</parameter></term> <listitem> - <para>This prevents Ncurses installing compressed manual + <para>This prevents Ncurses from installing compressed manual pages, which may happen if the host distribution itself has compressed manual pages.</para> </listitem> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ popd</userinput></screen> <varlistentry> <term><parameter>--without-normal</parameter></term> <listitem> - <para>This prevents Ncurses building and installing static C + <para>This prevents Ncurses from building and installing static C libraries.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ popd</userinput></screen> <varlistentry> <term><parameter>--without-debug</parameter></term> <listitem> - <para>This prevents Ncurses building and installing debug + <para>This prevents Ncurses from building and installing debug libraries.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |