From a09a9147a58cdaca21f7d910904153544de25e56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 18:29:21 +0000
Subject: Update host system requirements

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10494 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 prologue/hostreqs.xml  | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 prologue/standards.xml |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'prologue')

diff --git a/prologue/hostreqs.xml b/prologue/hostreqs.xml
index 153f31898..8e83e864b 100644
--- a/prologue/hostreqs.xml
+++ b/prologue/hostreqs.xml
@@ -64,6 +64,15 @@
       <para><emphasis role="strong">GCC-4.1.2</emphasis> including the C++
       compiler, <command>g++</command> (Versions greater than &gcc-version; are
       not recommended as they have not been tested)</para>
+
+      <note><para>On some distributions, there have been reports that some
+      libraries used by gcc have can be in an inconsistent state and that this
+      interferes with building some LFS packages.  To check this, look in
+      /usr/lib for libgmp.la, libmpfr.la, and libmpc.la.  Either all three
+      should be present or absent, but not only one or two.  If the problem
+      exists on your system, either rename or delete the .la files or install
+      the appropriate missing package.</para></note>
+
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
@@ -184,7 +193,13 @@ echo 'main(){}' &gt; dummy.c &amp;&amp; g++ -o dummy dummy.c
 if [ -x dummy ]
   then echo "g++ compilation OK";
   else echo "g++ compilation failed"; fi
-rm -f dummy.c dummy</literal>
+rm -f dummy.c dummy
+
+for lib in lib{gmp,mpfr,mpc}.la; do
+  echo $lib: $(if find /usr/lib* -name $lib|
+               grep -q $lib;then :;else echo not;fi) found
+done
+unset lib</literal>
 EOF
 
 bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/prologue/standards.xml b/prologue/standards.xml
index cc5db1916..a4dbd2d7e 100644
--- a/prologue/standards.xml
+++ b/prologue/standards.xml
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><emphasis>LSB Core:</emphasis></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>At, Batch (a part of At), Cpio, Fcrontab, Initd-tools,
+          <para>At, Batch (a part of At), Cpio, Ed, Fcrontab, Initd-tools,
           Lsb_release, PAM, Sendmail (or Postfix or Exim) </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><emphasis>LSB Core:</emphasis></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>None</para>
+          <para>time (executable) and pax</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
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