From 2a7ac34a074d6f89c1385ba1ee542d9901fefd64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:21:26 +0000
Subject: Upgrade to Glibc-2.6.1. Fixes #2018. Thanks to several people
 mentioned in the changelog.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8375 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter05/coreutils.xml |  9 +++++++++
 chapter05/glibc.xml     | 10 ++++++++++
 chapter05/gzip.xml      |  9 +++++++++
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

(limited to 'chapter05')

diff --git a/chapter05/coreutils.xml b/chapter05/coreutils.xml
index 8d367b1ba..e52e60d85 100644
--- a/chapter05/coreutils.xml
+++ b/chapter05/coreutils.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,15 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
 
+    <para>The version of the function <quote>futimens</quote> used
+    by Coreutils is incompatible with the version that current
+    Glibc provides, so we'll rename the function:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>for file in src/{copy,touch}.c lib/utimens.{c,h} ; do \
+   cp -v $file{,.orig}
+   sed 's/futimens/gl_&amp;/' $file.orig &gt; $file
+done</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/chapter05/glibc.xml b/chapter05/glibc.xml
index 0710ea5da..dd35ef1d3 100644
--- a/chapter05/glibc.xml
+++ b/chapter05/glibc.xml
@@ -49,6 +49,16 @@
 <screen><userinput>mkdir -v ../glibc-build
 cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>Because Glibc no longer supports i386, its developers say to use the
+    compiler flag <parameter>-march=i486</parameter> when building it for x86
+    machines. There are several ways to accomplish that, but testing shows that
+    the flag is best placed inside the build variable <quote>CFLAGS</quote>.
+    Instead of overriding completely what Glibc's internal build system uses
+    for CFLAGS, append the new flag to the existing contents of CFLAGS by
+    making use of the special file <filename>configparms</filename>:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>echo "CFLAGS += -march=i486" &gt; configparms</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Next, prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/tools \
diff --git a/chapter05/gzip.xml b/chapter05/gzip.xml
index a75659e2e..eb2c6a7c8 100644
--- a/chapter05/gzip.xml
+++ b/chapter05/gzip.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,15 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Gzip</title>
 
+    <para>The version of the function <quote>futimens</quote> used
+    by Gzip is incompatible with the version that current
+    Glibc provides, so we'll rename the function:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>for file in gzip.c lib/utimens.{c,h} ; do \
+   cp -v $file{,.orig}
+   sed 's/futimens/gl_&amp;/' $file.orig &gt; $file
+done</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Prepare Gzip for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
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