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@@ -10,14 +10,16 @@ patch also replaces all occurrences of <emphasis>root</emphasis> with
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<emphasis>0</emphasis> in the <filename>login/Makefile</filename> file.
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This is done because Glibc itself isn't installed yet and therefore
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username to userid resolving isn't working yet, so a <userinput>chown root
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-file</userinput> will fail, however it'll work fine if you use straight
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+file</userinput> will fail, however it'll work fine if you use the numeric
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IDs.</para>
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-<para>The patch also contains a few bug fixes and security fixes. In
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-particular it contains the "errlist", "dns resolver", "xdr_array", "calloc",
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-"thread exit", "udivdi3", "math test", "restrict_arr" and "divbyzero" fixes
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-which are documented at
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-<ulink url="http://www.zipworld.com.au/~gschafer/lfs-tweaks.html"/>.</para>
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+<para>Lastly, the patch also fixes a problem that causes statically linked
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+binaries to crash that were linked against Glibc-2.2 libraries. This patch
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+is only needed temporarily because we have static programs in <filename
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+class="directory">/static/bin</filename> that might be linked against an
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+older Glibc version (the one from the host distribution). We will install
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+Glibc again at the end of this chapter to remove this patch so you'll have
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+a pristine Glibc as the developers intended it.</para>
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<para><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf:</userinput> One of the final steps
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of the Glibc installation is running ldconfig to update the dynamic loader
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Gerard Beekmans