From f4e03a1910a9495ab703cb8c26caba1a5248bf4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 16:19:26 +0000 Subject: upgraded to glibc-2.3.1 git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2245 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/glibc-exp.xml | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter06/glibc-exp.xml') diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml b/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml index 32dd6896e..2f34bc2ef 100644 --- a/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml +++ b/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml @@ -10,14 +10,16 @@ patch also replaces all occurrences of root with 0 in the login/Makefile file. This is done because Glibc itself isn't installed yet and therefore username to userid resolving isn't working yet, so a chown root -file will fail, however it'll work fine if you use straight +file will fail, however it'll work fine if you use the numeric IDs. -The patch also contains a few bug fixes and security fixes. In -particular it contains the "errlist", "dns resolver", "xdr_array", "calloc", -"thread exit", "udivdi3", "math test", "restrict_arr" and "divbyzero" fixes -which are documented at -. +Lastly, the patch also fixes a problem that causes statically linked +binaries to crash that were linked against Glibc-2.2 libraries. This patch +is only needed temporarily because we have static programs in /static/bin that might be linked against an +older Glibc version (the one from the host distribution). We will install +Glibc again at the end of this chapter to remove this patch so you'll have +a pristine Glibc as the developers intended it. touch /etc/ld.so.conf: One of the final steps of the Glibc installation is running ldconfig to update the dynamic loader -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf