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  1. <sect1 id="ch05-locking-glibc">
  2. <title>"Locking in" Glibc</title>
  3. <?dbhtml filename="lockingglibc.html" dir="chapter05"?>
  4. <para>Now that the temporary C libraries have been installed, we want all
  5. the tools compiled in the rest of this chapter to be linked against these
  6. libraries. To accomplish this, we need to adjust the linker and the compiler's
  7. specs file.</para>
  8. <para>First install the adjusted linker by running the following from within
  9. the <filename class="directory">binutils-build</filename> directory:</para>
  10. <screen><userinput>make -C ld install</userinput></screen>
  11. <para>The linker was adjusted a little while back, at the end of the first
  12. pass of Binutils. From this point onwards everything will link <emphasis>only
  13. </emphasis> against the libraries in <filename>/tools/lib</filename>.</para>
  14. <note><para>If you somehow missed the earlier warning to retain the Binutils
  15. source and build directories from the first pass or otherwise accidentally
  16. deleted them or just don't have access to them, don't worry, all is not lost.
  17. Just ignore the above command. The result is a small chance of subsequent
  18. programs linking against libraries on the host. This is not ideal, however,
  19. it's not a major problem. The situation is corrected when we install the
  20. second pass of Binutils later on.</para></note>
  21. <para>Now that the adjusted linker is installed, you have to remove the
  22. Binutils build and source directories.</para>
  23. <para>The next thing to do is to amend our GCC specs file so that it points
  24. to the new dynamic linker. A simple sed will accomplish this:</para>
  25. <!-- Ampersands are needed to allow cut and paste -->
  26. <screen><userinput>SPECFILE=/tools/lib/gcc-lib/*/*/specs &amp;&amp;
  27. sed -e 's@/lib/ld-linux.so.2@/tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2@g' \
  28. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$SPECFILE &gt; tempspecfile &amp;&amp;
  29. mv -f tempspecfile $SPECFILE &amp;&amp;
  30. unset SPECFILE</userinput></screen>
  31. <para>We recommend that you cut-and-paste the above rather than try and type it
  32. all in. Or you can edit the specs file by hand if you want to: just replace any
  33. occurrence of "/lib/ld-linux.so.2" with "/tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2".</para>
  34. <important><para>If you are working on a platform where the name of the dynamic
  35. linker is something other than <filename>ld-linux.so.2</filename>, you
  36. <emphasis>must</emphasis> substitute <filename>ld-linux.so.2</filename> with the
  37. name of your platform's dynamic linker in the above commands. Refer back to
  38. <xref linkend="ch05-toolchaintechnotes"/> if necessary.</para></important>
  39. <para>Lastly, there is a possibility that some include files from the host
  40. system have found their way into GCC's private include dir. This can happen
  41. because of GCC's "fixincludes" process which runs as part of the GCC build.
  42. We'll explain more about this further on in this chapter. For now, run the
  43. following commands to eliminate this possibility:</para>
  44. <screen><userinput>rm -f /tools/lib/gcc-lib/*/*/include/{pthread.h,bits/sigthread.h}</userinput></screen>
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  47. <caution><para>It is imperative at this point to stop and ensure that the basic
  48. functions (compiling and linking) of the new toolchain are working as expected.
  49. For this we are going to perform a simple sanity check:</para>
  50. <screen><userinput>echo 'main(){}' &gt; dummy.c
  51. gcc dummy.c
  52. readelf -l a.out | grep ': /tools'</userinput></screen>
  53. <para>If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors, and the
  54. output of the last command will be:</para>
  55. <blockquote><screen>[Requesting program interpreter: /tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2]</screen></blockquote>
  56. <para>If you did not receive the output as shown above, or received no output at
  57. all, then something is seriously wrong. You will need to investigate and retrace
  58. your steps to find out where the problem is and correct it. There is no point in
  59. continuing until this is done. Most likely something went wrong with the specs
  60. file amendment above. Note especially that <filename>/tools/lib</filename>
  61. appears as the prefix of our dynamic linker. Of course, if you are working on a
  62. platform where the name of the dynamic linker is something other than
  63. <filename>ld-linux.so.2</filename>, then the output will be slightly
  64. different.</para>
  65. <para>Once you are satisfied that all is well, clean up the test files:</para>
  66. <screen><userinput>rm dummy.c a.out</userinput></screen>
  67. </caution>
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  70. <para>This completes the installation of the self-contained toolchain, and it
  71. can now be used to build the rest of the temporary tools.</para>
  72. </sect1>