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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-adjusting">
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| 9 |   <?dbhtml filename="adjusting.html"?>
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| 10 | 
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| 11 |   <title>Adjusting the Toolchain</title>
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| 12 | 
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| 13 |   <para os="a">Now we adjust GCC's specs so that they point to the new
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| 14 |   dynamic linker. A <command>perl</command> command accomplishes this:</para>
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| 15 | 
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| 16 | <screen os="c"><userinput>gcc -dumpspecs | \
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| 17 | perl -p -e 's@/tools/lib/ld@/lib/ld@g;' \
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| 18 |      -e 's@\*startfile_prefix_spec:\n@$_/usr/lib/ @g;' > \
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| 19 |      $(dirname $(gcc --print-libgcc-file-name))/specs</userinput></screen>
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| 20 | 
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| 21 |   <para os="d">The <command>perl</command> command above makes 2
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| 22 |   modifications to GCC's specs: it removes <quote>/tools</quote> from the
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| 23 |   pathname to the dynamic linker, and adds <quote>/usr/lib/</quote> to the
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| 24 |   startfile_prefix_spec. It is a good idea to visually inspect the
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| 25 |   <filename>specs</filename> file, and compare with the output of
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| 26 |   <command>gcc -dumpspecs</command>, to verify that
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| 27 |   the intended changes were actually made.</para>
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| 28 | 
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| 29 |   <caution>
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| 30 | 
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| 31 |     <para os="f">It is imperative at this point to stop and ensure that
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| 32 |     the basic functions (compiling and linking) of the adjusted toolchain
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| 33 |     are working as expected. To do this, perform a sanity
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| 34 |     check:</para>
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| 35 | 
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| 36 | <screen os="g"><userinput>echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c
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| 37 | gcc dummy.c
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| 38 | readelf -l a.out | grep ': /lib'</userinput></screen>
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| 39 | 
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| 40 |     <para os="h">If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors,
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| 41 |     and the output of the last command will be:</para>
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| 42 | 
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| 43 | <screen os="i"><computeroutput>[Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-linux.so.2]</computeroutput></screen>
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| 44 | 
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| 45 |     <para os="j">Note that <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> is now
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| 46 |     the prefix of our dynamic linker.</para>
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| 47 | 
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| 48 |     <para os="k">If the output does not appear as shown above or is not received
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| 49 |     at all, then something is seriously wrong. Investigate and retrace the
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| 50 |     steps to find out where the problem is and correct it. The most likely
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| 51 |     reason is that something went wrong with the specs file amendment
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| 52 |     above. Any issues will need to be resolved before continuing on with
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| 53 |     the process.</para>
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| 54 | 
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| 55 |     <para os="l">Once everything is working correctly, clean up the test
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| 56 |     files:</para>
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| 57 | 
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| 58 | <screen os="m"><userinput>rm -v dummy.c a.out</userinput></screen>
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| 59 | 
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| 60 |   </caution>
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| 61 | 
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| 62 | </sect1>
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