From 81fd230419b0cfd052b08fc1ed352bb7d49975df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:16:42 +0000 Subject: Trunk is now identical to Testing git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4648 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter05/hostreqs.xml | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'chapter05/hostreqs.xml') diff --git a/chapter05/hostreqs.xml b/chapter05/hostreqs.xml index c4a216a24..310d450d1 100644 --- a/chapter05/hostreqs.xml +++ b/chapter05/hostreqs.xml @@ -7,6 +7,34 @@ Host System Requirements -See testing. +The host must be running at least a 2.6.2 kernel compiled with +GCC-3.0 or higher. There are two main reasons for this high +requirement. First, the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL) +test suite will segfault if the host's kernel has not been compiled with +GCC-3.0 or a later version. Secondly, the 2.6.2 or later version of +the kernel is required for the use of Udev. Udev creates devices +dynamically by reading from the sysfs file system. However, support +for this filesystem has only recently been implemented in most of +the kernel drivers. We must be sure that all critical system devices +get created properly. + +In order to determine whether the host kernel meets the +requirements outlined above, run the following command: + +cat /proc/version + +This will produce output similar to: + +Linux version 2.6.2 (user@host) (gcc version 3.4.0) #1 + Tue Apr 20 21:22:18 GMT 2004 + +If the results of the above command state that the host kernel +was not compiled using a GCC-3.0 (or later) compiler, one will need to +be compiled. The host system will then need to be rebooted to use the +newly compiled kernel. Instructions for compiling the kernel and +configuring the boot loader (assuming the host uses GRUB) are located +in . + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf