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Last change on this file since 54e0992 was f32f537, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r788@server (orig r786): jim | 2005-12-01 12:07:35 -0800

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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
18  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
19  href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
20  xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
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
29    <para os="db">We will disable the linking to
30    <filename>libgcc_eh</filename>:</para>
31
32<screen os="dc"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-libgcc_eh-patch;</userinput></screen>
33
34    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
35    href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
36    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c'])"/>
37
38    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
39    href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
40    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
41
42    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
43    href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
44    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
45
46    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
47    href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
48    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='f'])"/>
49
50    <para os="dd">For NPTL enabled systems we will need to add the following lines to
51    <filename>config.cache</filename>:</para>
52
53<screen os="de"><userinput>echo "libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes" &gt; config.cache
54echo "libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes" &gt;&gt; config.cache</userinput></screen>
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
60<screen os="df"><userinput>BUILD_CC="gcc" CC="${LFS_TARGET}-gcc" \
61    AR="${LFS_TARGET}-ar" RANLIB="${LFS_TARGET}-ranlib" \
62    ../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/tools \
63    --host=${LFS_TARGET} --build=${LFS_HOST} \
64    --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
65    --with-tls --enable-kernel=2.6.0 --with-__thread \
66    --with-binutils=/cross-tools/bin --with-headers=/tools/include \
67    --cache-file=config.cache</userinput></screen>
68
69    <variablelist os="dg">
70      <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
71
72      <varlistentry os="dg1">
73        <term><parameter>BUILD_CC="gcc"</parameter></term>
74        <listitem>
75          <para>This sets GLIBC to use the current compiler on our system. This is
76          used to create the tools GLIBC uses durings it's build.</para>
77        </listitem>
78      </varlistentry>
79
80      <varlistentry os="dg2">
81        <term><parameter>CC="${LFS_TARGET}-gcc"</parameter></term>
82        <listitem>
83          <para>This forces GLIBC to use the GCC complier that we made for our target
84          architecture.</para>
85        </listitem>
86      </varlistentry>
87
88      <varlistentry os="dg3">
89        <term><parameter>AR="${LFS_TARGET}-ar"</parameter></term>
90        <listitem>
91          <para>This forces GLIBC to use the AR utility we made for our target
92          architecture.</para>
93        </listitem>
94      </varlistentry>
95
96      <varlistentry os="dg4">
97        <term><parameter>RANLIB="${LFS_TARGET}-ranlib"</parameter></term>
98        <listitem>
99          <para>This forces GLIBC to use the RANLIB utility we made for our target
100          architecture.</para>
101        </listitem>
102      </varlistentry>
103
104      <varlistentry os="dg5">
105        <term><parameter>--disable-profile</parameter></term>
106        <listitem>
107          <para>This builds the libraries without profiling information.
108          Omit this option if profiling on the temporary tools is necessary.</para>
109        </listitem>
110      </varlistentry>
111
112      <varlistentry os="dg6">
113        <term><parameter>--enable-add-ons</parameter></term>
114        <listitem>
115          <para>This tells GLIBC to utilize all add-on's that are avaialble.</para>
116        </listitem>
117      </varlistentry>
118
119      <varlistentry os="dg7">
120        <term><parameter>--with-tls</parameter></term>
121        <listitem>
122          <para>This tells GLIBC to use Thread Local Storage.</para>
123        </listitem>
124      </varlistentry>
125
126      <varlistentry os="dg8">
127        <term><parameter>--with-__thread</parameter></term>
128        <listitem>
129          <para>This tells GLIBC to use use the __thread for libc and
130          libpthread builds.</para>
131        </listitem>
132      </varlistentry>
133
134      <varlistentry os="dg9">
135        <term><parameter>--with-binutils=/cross-tools/bin</parameter></term>
136        <listitem>
137          <para>This tells GLIBC to use the Binutils that are specific to
138          our target architecture.</para>
139        </listitem>
140      </varlistentry>
141
142      <varlistentry os="dg10">
143        <term><parameter>--cache-file=config.cache</parameter></term>
144        <listitem>
145          <para>This tells GLIBC to utilize a premade cache file.</para>
146        </listitem>
147      </varlistentry>
148
149    </variablelist>
150
151    <para os="dh">During this stage the following warning might appear:</para>
152
153<blockquote os="di"><screen><computeroutput>configure: WARNING:
154*** These auxiliary programs are missing or
155*** incompatible versions: msgfmt
156*** some features will be disabled.
157*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</computeroutput></screen></blockquote>
158
159    <para os="dj">The missing or incompatible <command>msgfmt</command> program is
160    generally harmless. This <command>msgfmt</command> program is part of the
161    Gettext package which the host distribution should provide.</para>
162
163    <para os="dk">Compile the package:</para>
164
165<screen os="dl"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
166
167    <para os="dm">Install the package:</para>
168
169<screen os="dn"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
170
171  </sect2>
172
173  <sect2 role="content">
174    <title/>
175
176    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
177    linkend="contents-glibc" role="."/></para>
178
179  </sect2>
180
181</sect1>
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