source: cross-tools/x86/glibc-headers.xml @ 157894b

Last change on this file since 157894b was 157894b, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r835@server (orig r833): jim | 2005-12-05 15:20:37 -0800

r941@server: jim | 2005-12-05 15:20:14 -0800
Fixed typo for Sparcv8


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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-headers" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="glibc-headers.html"?>
10
11  <title>Glibc-&glibc-version; Headers</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc-headers">
14    <primary sortas="a-Glibc">Glibc</primary>
15    <secondary>cross tools, headers</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 Headers</title>
24
25    <para os="s1">The following sed removes a dependency of gcc 3.4.x from
26    the glibc we are using in cross-lfs. The reason we are changing it is
27    because this only installs the headers, no compiling takes place. In the
28    next glibc chapter, we use the gcc that's build right after this chapter.</para>
29
30<screen os="s2"><userinput>cp configure{,.orig}
31sed -e 's/3.4/3.[0-9]/g' configure.orig > configure</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='e'])"/>
36
37    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
38    href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
39    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='f'])"/>
40
41    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
42    href="../common/glibc.xml"
43    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='dd'])"/>
44
45    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
46    href="../common/glibc.xml"
47    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='de'])"/>
48
49    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
50    href="../../final-system/common/glibc.xml"
51    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
52
53<screen os="s3"><userinput>CC=gcc ../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/tools \
54    --host=${LFS_TARGET} --build=${LFS_HOST} \
55    --disable-sanity-checks --enable-kernel=2.6.0 \
56    --with-headers=/tools/include --cache-file=config.cache \
57    --with-binutils=/cross-tools/${LFS_TARGET}/bin</userinput></screen>
58
59   <warning os="e1">
60      <para><emphasis>Any</emphasis> error message you see about nptl at this point
61       can safely be ignored.</para>
62   </warning>
63
64    <variablelist os="ca">
65      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
66
67      <varlistentry os="ca1">
68        <term><parameter>CC=gcc</parameter></term>
69        <listitem>
70          <para>Tells GLIBC to use the hosts GCC compiler.</para>
71        </listitem>
72      </varlistentry>
73
74      <varlistentry os="ca2">
75        <term><parameter>--prefix=/tools</parameter></term>
76        <listitem>
77          <para>This tells the configure script to prepare to install the
78          package in the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>
79          directory.</para>
80        </listitem>
81      </varlistentry>
82
83      <varlistentry os="ca3">
84        <term><parameter>--target=${LFS_HOST}</parameter></term>
85        <listitem>
86          <para>When used with --host, this creates a cross-architecture
87          executable that creates files for ${LFS_TARGET} but runs on ${LFS_HOST).</para>
88        </listitem>
89      </varlistentry>
90
91      <varlistentry os="ca4">
92        <term><parameter>--host=${LFS_TARGET}</parameter></term>
93        <listitem>
94          <para>When used with --build, this creates a cross-architecture
95          executable that creates files for ${LFS_TARGET} but runs on ${LFS_HOST).</para>
96        </listitem>
97      </varlistentry>
98
99      <varlistentry os="ca5">
100        <term><parameter>--disable-sanity-checks</parameter></term>
101        <listitem>
102          <para>This switch disables any checks that are in place.</para>
103        </listitem>
104      </varlistentry>
105
106      <varlistentry os="ca6">
107        <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=2.6.0</parameter></term>
108        <listitem>
109          <para>This tells Glibc to compile the library with support
110          for 2.6.x Linux kernels.</para>
111        </listitem>
112      </varlistentry>
113
114      <varlistentry os="ca7">
115        <term><parameter>--with-headers=/tools/include</parameter></term>
116        <listitem>
117          <para>This tells Glibc to compile itself against the headers
118          recently installed to the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>
119          directory, so that it knows exactly what features the kernel has
120          and can optimize itself accordingly.</para>
121        </listitem>
122      </varlistentry>
123
124      <varlistentry os="ca8">
125        <term><parameter>--with-binutils=/cross-tools/${LFS_TARGET}/bin</parameter></term>
126        <listitem>
127          <para>This tells GLIBC to use the binutils for our specific target architecture.</para>
128        </listitem>
129      </varlistentry>
130
131    </variablelist>
132
133    <para os="cb">Now, install the headers:</para>
134
135<screen os="cd"><userinput>make install-headers</userinput></screen>
136
137    <para os="ce">Some files aren't installed by the above command, then
138    we will copy the header files we need:</para>
139
140    <para os="cf">First we will copy a common file over to <filename
141    class="directory">/tools/include</filename>:</para>
142
143<screen os="cg"><userinput>install -d /tools/include/bits
144cp bits/stdio_lim.h /tools/include/bits</userinput></screen>
145
146    <para os="ch">Now we will create a blank stub file:</para>
147
148<screen os="ci"><userinput>touch /tools/include/gnu/stubs.h</userinput></screen>
149
150    <para os="cj">For NPTL we use the following command:</para>
151
152<screen os="ck"><userinput>cp ../glibc-&glibc-version;/nptl/sysdeps/pthread/pthread.h /tools/include/</userinput></screen>
153
154    <para os="cl">Now we copy the architecture specific header over:</para>
155
156<screen os="cm"><userinput>cp ../glibc-&glibc-version;/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/bits/pthreadtypes.h /tools/include/bits/</userinput></screen>
157
158  </sect2>
159
160  <sect2 role="content">
161    <title/>
162
163    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
164    linkend="contents-glibc" role="."/></para>
165
166  </sect2>
167
168</sect1>
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