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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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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 amend the GCC specs file so that it points 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 | <warning os="b">
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| 17 | <para><emphasis>Do not</emphasis> run the following command more than
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| 18 | once, it will adversely affect the outcome of software built after
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| 19 | this step.</para>
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| 20 | </warning>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <screen os="c"><userinput>gcc -dumpspecs | \
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| 23 | perl -pi -e 's@/tools/lib/ld@/lib/ld@g;' \
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| 24 | -e 's@\*startfile_prefix_spec:\n@$_/usr/lib/ @g;' > \
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| 25 | `dirname $(gcc --print-libgcc-file-name)`/specs</userinput></screen>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <para os="d">It is a good idea to visually inspect the specs file to verify the
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| 28 | intended change was actually made.</para>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para os="e">Note that <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> is now
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| 31 | the prefix of our dynamic linker.</para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <caution>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <para os="f">It is imperative at this point to stop and ensure that
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| 36 | the basic functions (compiling and linking) of the adjusted toolchain
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| 37 | are working as expected. To do this, perform a sanity
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| 38 | check:</para>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <screen os="g"><userinput>echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c
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| 41 | cc dummy.c
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| 42 | readelf -l a.out | grep ': /lib'</userinput></screen>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para os="h">If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors,
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| 45 | and the output of the last command will be:</para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <screen os="i"><computeroutput>[Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-linux.so.2]</computeroutput></screen>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <para os="j">Note that <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> is now
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| 50 | the prefix of our dynamic linker.</para>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <para os="k">If the output does not appear as shown above or is not received
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| 53 | at all, then something is seriously wrong. Investigate and retrace the
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| 54 | steps to find out where the problem is and correct it. The most likely
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| 55 | reason is that something went wrong with the specs file amendment
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| 56 | above. Any issues will need to be resolved before continuing on with
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| 57 | the process.</para>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <para os="l">Once everything is working correctly, clean up the test
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| 60 | files:</para>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | <screen os="m"><userinput>rm dummy.c a.out</userinput></screen>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | </caution>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | </sect1>
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