source: cross-tools/common/glibc.xml @ cbfa0a3

Last change on this file since cbfa0a3 was cbfa0a3, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r974@server (orig r972): jim | 2005-12-28 21:29:16 -0800

r1216@server: jim | 2005-12-28 21:26:31 -0800
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[bf8c11f]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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
[48f8316]18  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
19  href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
20  xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
[bf8c11f]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
[cbfa0a3]29    <para os="db">Disable linking to <filename>libgcc_eh</filename>:</para>
[bf8c11f]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
[cbfa0a3]49    <para os="dd">For NPTL enabled systems the following lines need
50    to be added to <filename>config.cache</filename>:</para>
[bf8c11f]51
52<screen os="de"><userinput>echo "libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes" &gt; config.cache
53echo "libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes" &gt;&gt; config.cache</userinput></screen>
54
55    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
56    href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
57    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
58
[c48c555]59<screen os="df"><userinput>BUILD_CC="gcc" CC="${LFS_TARGET}-gcc" \
[bf8c11f]60    AR="${LFS_TARGET}-ar" RANLIB="${LFS_TARGET}-ranlib" \
61    ../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/tools \
62    --host=${LFS_TARGET} --build=${LFS_HOST} \
63    --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
64    --with-tls --enable-kernel=2.6.0 --with-__thread \
65    --with-binutils=/cross-tools/bin --with-headers=/tools/include \
66    --cache-file=config.cache</userinput></screen>
67
[c48c555]68    <variablelist os="dg">
[bf8c11f]69      <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
70
[c48c555]71      <varlistentry os="dg1">
[bf8c11f]72        <term><parameter>BUILD_CC="gcc"</parameter></term>
73        <listitem>
[cbfa0a3]74          <para>This sets Glibc to use the current compiler on our system. This is
75          used to create the tools Glibc uses durings it's build.</para>
[bf8c11f]76        </listitem>
77      </varlistentry>
78
[c48c555]79      <varlistentry os="dg2">
[bf8c11f]80        <term><parameter>CC="${LFS_TARGET}-gcc"</parameter></term>
81        <listitem>
[cbfa0a3]82          <para>This forces Glibc to use the GCC complier that we made for our target
[c48c555]83          architecture.</para>
[bf8c11f]84        </listitem>
85      </varlistentry>
86
[c48c555]87      <varlistentry os="dg3">
[bf8c11f]88        <term><parameter>AR="${LFS_TARGET}-ar"</parameter></term>
89        <listitem>
[cbfa0a3]90          <para>This forces Glibc to use the AR utility we made for our target
[c48c555]91          architecture.</para>
[bf8c11f]92        </listitem>
93      </varlistentry>
94
[c48c555]95      <varlistentry os="dg4">
[bf8c11f]96        <term><parameter>RANLIB="${LFS_TARGET}-ranlib"</parameter></term>
97        <listitem>
[cbfa0a3]98          <para>This forces Glibc to use the RANLIB utility we made for our target
[c48c555]99          architecture.</para>
[bf8c11f]100        </listitem>
101      </varlistentry>
102
[c48c555]103      <varlistentry os="dg5">
[bf8c11f]104        <term><parameter>--disable-profile</parameter></term>
105        <listitem>
[c48c555]106          <para>This builds the libraries without profiling information.
107          Omit this option if profiling on the temporary tools is necessary.</para>
[bf8c11f]108        </listitem>
109      </varlistentry>
110
[c48c555]111      <varlistentry os="dg6">
[bf8c11f]112        <term><parameter>--enable-add-ons</parameter></term>
113        <listitem>
[cbfa0a3]114          <para>This tells Glibc to utilize all add-ons that are avaialble.</para>
[bf8c11f]115        </listitem>
116      </varlistentry>
117
[c48c555]118      <varlistentry os="dg7">
[bf8c11f]119        <term><parameter>--with-tls</parameter></term>
120        <listitem>
[cbfa0a3]121          <para>This tells Glibc to use Thread Local Storage.</para>
[bf8c11f]122        </listitem>
123      </varlistentry>
124
[c48c555]125      <varlistentry os="dg8">
[bf8c11f]126        <term><parameter>--with-__thread</parameter></term>
127        <listitem>
[cbfa0a3]128          <para>This tells Glibc to use use the __thread for libc and
[c48c555]129          libpthread builds.</para>
[bf8c11f]130        </listitem>
131      </varlistentry>
132
[c48c555]133      <varlistentry os="dg9">
[bf8c11f]134        <term><parameter>--with-binutils=/cross-tools/bin</parameter></term>
135        <listitem>
[cbfa0a3]136          <para>This tells Glibc to use the Binutils that are specific to
[c48c555]137          our target architecture.</para>
[bf8c11f]138        </listitem>
139      </varlistentry>
140
[c48c555]141      <varlistentry os="dg10">
[bf8c11f]142        <term><parameter>--cache-file=config.cache</parameter></term>
143        <listitem>
[cbfa0a3]144          <para>This tells Glibc to utilize a premade cache file.</para>
[bf8c11f]145        </listitem>
146      </varlistentry>
147
148    </variablelist>
149
[c48c555]150    <para os="dh">During this stage the following warning might appear:</para>
[bf8c11f]151
[c48c555]152<blockquote os="di"><screen><computeroutput>configure: WARNING:
[bf8c11f]153*** These auxiliary programs are missing or
154*** incompatible versions: msgfmt
155*** some features will be disabled.
156*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</computeroutput></screen></blockquote>
157
[c48c555]158    <para os="dj">The missing or incompatible <command>msgfmt</command> program is
[bf8c11f]159    generally harmless. This <command>msgfmt</command> program is part of the
160    Gettext package which the host distribution should provide.</para>
161
[c48c555]162    <para os="dk">Compile the package:</para>
[bf8c11f]163
[c48c555]164<screen os="dl"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]165
[c48c555]166    <para os="dm">Install the package:</para>
[bf8c11f]167
[c48c555]168<screen os="dn"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]169
170  </sect2>
171
172  <sect2 role="content">
173    <title/>
174
175    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
176    linkend="contents-glibc" role="."/></para>
177
178  </sect2>
179
180</sect1>
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