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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[3f8be484]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-cross-tools-glibc" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="glibc.html"?>
10
11 <title>Glibc-&glibc-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc">
14 <primary sortas="a-Glibc">Glibc</primary>
15 <secondary>cross tools</secondary>
16 </indexterm>
17
[cf66ceae]18 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
19 href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
20 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
[3f8be484]21
22 <sect2 role="installation">
23 <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
24
25 <para os="da">It should be noted that compiling Glibc in any way other than
26 the method suggested in this book puts the stability of the system at
27 risk.</para>
28
[6d4c909]29 <para os="db">Disable linking to <filename>libgcc_eh</filename>:</para>
[3f8be484]30
31<screen os="dc"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-libgcc_eh-patch;</userinput></screen>
32
33 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
34 href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
35 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c'])"/>
36
37 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
38 href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
39 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
40
41 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
42 href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
43 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
44
45 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
46 href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
47 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='f'])"/>
48
[0220731]49 <para os="dd">The following lines need to be added to
50 <filename>config.cache</filename> for Glibc to support NPTL:</para>
[3f8be484]51
52<screen os="de"><userinput>echo "libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes" &gt; config.cache
[ca89969]53echo "libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes" &gt;&gt; config.cache
54echo "libc_cv_gnu89_inline=yes" &gt;&gt; config.cache</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]55
56 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
57 href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
58 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
59
[07114c98]60<screen os="df"><userinput>BUILD_CC="gcc" CC="${CLFS_TARGET}-gcc" \
61 AR="${CLFS_TARGET}-ar" RANLIB="${CLFS_TARGET}-ranlib" \
[3f8be484]62 ../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/tools \
[07114c98]63 --host=${CLFS_TARGET} --build=${CLFS_HOST} \
[3f8be484]64 --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
65 --with-tls --enable-kernel=2.6.0 --with-__thread \
[bc2e3fa]66 --with-binutils=/cross-tools/bin --with-headers=/tools/include \
[3f8be484]67 --cache-file=config.cache</userinput></screen>
68
[d3a4fc0]69 <variablelist os="dg">
[3f8be484]70 <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
71
[d3a4fc0]72 <varlistentry os="dg1">
[3f8be484]73 <term><parameter>BUILD_CC="gcc"</parameter></term>
74 <listitem>
[6d4c909]75 <para>This sets Glibc to use the current compiler on our system. This is
[8a74dc5]76 used to create the tools Glibc uses during its build.</para>
[3f8be484]77 </listitem>
78 </varlistentry>
79
[d3a4fc0]80 <varlistentry os="dg2">
[07114c98]81 <term><parameter>CC="${CLFS_TARGET}-gcc"</parameter></term>
[3f8be484]82 <listitem>
[df709be]83 <para>This forces Glibc to use the GCC compiler that we made for our target
[d3a4fc0]84 architecture.</para>
[3f8be484]85 </listitem>
86 </varlistentry>
87
[d3a4fc0]88 <varlistentry os="dg3">
[07114c98]89 <term><parameter>AR="${CLFS_TARGET}-ar"</parameter></term>
[3f8be484]90 <listitem>
[df709be]91 <para>This forces Glibc to use the <command>ar</command> utility
92 we made for our target architecture.</para>
[3f8be484]93 </listitem>
94 </varlistentry>
95
[d3a4fc0]96 <varlistentry os="dg4">
[07114c98]97 <term><parameter>RANLIB="${CLFS_TARGET}-ranlib"</parameter></term>
[3f8be484]98 <listitem>
[df709be]99 <para>This forces Glibc to use the <command>ranlib</command> utility
100 we made for our target architecture.</para>
[3f8be484]101 </listitem>
102 </varlistentry>
103
[d3a4fc0]104 <varlistentry os="dg5">
[3f8be484]105 <term><parameter>--disable-profile</parameter></term>
106 <listitem>
[d3a4fc0]107 <para>This builds the libraries without profiling information.
108 Omit this option if profiling on the temporary tools is necessary.</para>
[3f8be484]109 </listitem>
110 </varlistentry>
111
[d3a4fc0]112 <varlistentry os="dg6">
[3f8be484]113 <term><parameter>--enable-add-ons</parameter></term>
114 <listitem>
[e9e2255]115 <para>This tells Glibc to utilize all add-ons that are
116 available.</para>
[3f8be484]117 </listitem>
118 </varlistentry>
119
[d3a4fc0]120 <varlistentry os="dg7">
[3f8be484]121 <term><parameter>--with-tls</parameter></term>
122 <listitem>
[6d4c909]123 <para>This tells Glibc to use Thread Local Storage.</para>
[3f8be484]124 </listitem>
125 </varlistentry>
126
[d3a4fc0]127 <varlistentry os="dg8">
[c814e64]128 <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=2.6.0</parameter></term>
129 <listitem>
130 <para>This tells Glibc to compile the library with support
131 for 2.6.x Linux kernels.</para>
132 </listitem>
133 </varlistentry>
134
135 <varlistentry os="dg9">
[3f8be484]136 <term><parameter>--with-__thread</parameter></term>
137 <listitem>
[6d4c909]138 <para>This tells Glibc to use use the __thread for libc and
[d3a4fc0]139 libpthread builds.</para>
[3f8be484]140 </listitem>
141 </varlistentry>
142
[c814e64]143 <varlistentry os="dg10">
[bc2e3fa]144 <term><parameter>--with-binutils=/cross-tools/bin</parameter></term>
[3f8be484]145 <listitem>
[6d4c909]146 <para>This tells Glibc to use the Binutils that are specific to
[d3a4fc0]147 our target architecture.</para>
[3f8be484]148 </listitem>
149 </varlistentry>
150
[c814e64]151 <varlistentry os="dg11">
152 <term><parameter>--with-headers=/tools/include</parameter></term>
153 <listitem>
154 <para>This tells Glibc to compile itself against the headers
155 recently installed to the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>
156 directory, so that it knows exactly what features the kernel has
157 and can optimize itself accordingly.</para>
158 </listitem>
159 </varlistentry>
160
161 <varlistentry os="dg12">
[3f8be484]162 <term><parameter>--cache-file=config.cache</parameter></term>
163 <listitem>
[6d4c909]164 <para>This tells Glibc to utilize a premade cache file.</para>
[3f8be484]165 </listitem>
166 </varlistentry>
167
168 </variablelist>
169
[d3a4fc0]170 <para os="dh">During this stage the following warning might appear:</para>
[3f8be484]171
[d3a4fc0]172<blockquote os="di"><screen><computeroutput>configure: WARNING:
[3f8be484]173*** These auxiliary programs are missing or
174*** incompatible versions: msgfmt
175*** some features will be disabled.
176*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</computeroutput></screen></blockquote>
177
[d3a4fc0]178 <para os="dj">The missing or incompatible <command>msgfmt</command> program is
[3f8be484]179 generally harmless. This <command>msgfmt</command> program is part of the
180 Gettext package which the host distribution should provide.</para>
181
[d3a4fc0]182 <para os="dk">Compile the package:</para>
[3f8be484]183
[d3a4fc0]184<screen os="dl"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]185
[d3a4fc0]186 <para os="dm">Install the package:</para>
[3f8be484]187
[d3a4fc0]188<screen os="dn"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]189
190 </sect2>
191
192 <sect2 role="content">
193 <title/>
194
195 <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
196 linkend="contents-glibc" role="."/></para>
197
198 </sect2>
199
200</sect1>
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