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<sect2 role="installation">
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<title>Installation of Glibc</title>
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-
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+<!--
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<note>
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<para>Some packages outside of LFS suggest installing GNU libiconv in
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order to translate data from one encoding to another. The project's
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@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@
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an <function>iconv()</function> implementation and can convert from/to
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Unicode, therefore libiconv is not required on an LFS system.</para>
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</note>
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+-->
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+ <note><para>The Glibc build system is self-contained and will install
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+ perfectly, even though the compiler specs file and linker are still
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+ pointing to <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>. The specs
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+ and linker cannot be adjusted before the Glibc install because the
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+ Glibc autoconf tests would give false results and defeat the goal
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+ of achieving a clean build.</para></note>
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<para>Some of the Glibc programs use non-FHS compilant
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<filename class="directory">/var/db</filename> directory to store
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<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-fhs-patch;</userinput></screen>
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- <para>The Glibc build system is self-contained and will install
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- perfectly, even though the compiler specs file and linker are still
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- pointing at <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>. The specs
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- and linker cannot be adjusted before the Glibc install because the
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- Glibc autoconf tests would give false results and defeat the goal
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- of achieving a clean build.</para>
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-<!--
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- <para>Now fix a build problem that affects i386 systems:</para>
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-
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-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-upstream-patch;</userinput></screen>
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-
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- <para>The most recent stable version of Glibc does not handle large files
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- correctly. Fix the problem with this patch:</para>
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-
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-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-largefile-patch;</userinput></screen>
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-
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- <para>Finally, update some recent changes from the upstream repository:</para>
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-
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-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-upstream-patch2;</userinput></screen>
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--->
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<para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc
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in a dedicated build directory:</para>
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@@ -138,27 +125,7 @@ cd build</userinput></screen>
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<emphasis>nptl/tst-thread-affinity-{pthread,pthread2,sched}</emphasis>
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tests may fail for reasons that have not been determined. </para>
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</listitem>
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-<!--
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- <listitem>
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- <para>The <emphasis>elf/tst-protected1a</emphasis> and
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- <emphasis>elf/tst-protected1b</emphasis> tests are known to
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- fail with the current stable version of binutils.</para>
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- </listitem>
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- <listitem>
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- <para>When running on older and slower hardware or on systems under
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- load, some tests can fail because of test timeouts being exceeded.
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- Modifying the make check command to set a TIMEOUTFACTOR is reported to
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- help eliminate these errors (e.g. <command>TIMEOUTFACTOR=16
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- make -k check</command>).</para>
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- </listitem>
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--->
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-<!--
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- <listitem>
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- <para>libio/tst-ftell-partial-wide.out fails because it needs a locale
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- that has not yet been generated.</para>
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- </listitem>
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--->
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<listitem>
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<para>Other tests known to fail on some architectures are
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malloc/tst-malloc-usable and nptl/tst-cleanupx4. </para>
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<screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v ../nscd/nscd.conf /etc/nscd.conf
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mkdir -pv /var/cache/nscd</userinput></screen>
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- <para>The locales that can make the system respond in a different language
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- were not installed by the above command. None of the locales are required,
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- but if some of them are missing, test suites of the future packages would
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- skip important testcases.</para>
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+ <para>Next, install the locales that can make the system respond in a
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+ different language. None of the locales are required, but if some of them
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+ are missing, the test suites of future packages would skip important
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+ testcases.</para>
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<para>Individual locales can be installed using the
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<command>localedef</command> program. E.g., the first
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Bruce Dubbs