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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
  2. <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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  4. <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  5. %general-entities;
  6. ]>
  7. <sect1 id="ch-tools-glibc" role="wrap">
  8. <?dbhtml filename="glibc.html"?>
  9. <sect1info condition="script">
  10. <productname>glibc</productname>
  11. <productnumber>&glibc-version;</productnumber>
  12. <address>&glibc-url;</address>
  13. </sect1info>
  14. <title>Glibc-&glibc-version;</title>
  15. <indexterm zone="ch-tools-glibc">
  16. <primary sortas="a-Glibc">Glibc</primary>
  17. <secondary>tools</secondary>
  18. </indexterm>
  19. <sect2 role="package">
  20. <title/>
  21. <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
  22. href="../chapter06/glibc.xml"
  23. xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
  24. <segmentedlist>
  25. <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  26. <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  27. <seglistitem>
  28. <seg>&glibc-ch5-sbu;</seg>
  29. <seg>&glibc-ch5-du;</seg>
  30. </seglistitem>
  31. </segmentedlist>
  32. </sect2>
  33. <sect2 role="installation">
  34. <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
  35. <!--
  36. <para>First fix a build problem that affects i386 systems:</para>
  37. <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-upstream-patch;</userinput></screen>
  38. -->
  39. <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc
  40. in a dedicated build directory:</para>
  41. <screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v build
  42. cd build</userinput></screen>
  43. <para>Next, prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
  44. <screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure \
  45. --prefix=/tools \
  46. --host=$LFS_TGT \
  47. --build=$(../scripts/config.guess) \
  48. --disable-profile \
  49. --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
  50. --enable-obsolete-rpc \
  51. --with-headers=/tools/include \
  52. libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes \
  53. libc_cv_ctors_header=yes \
  54. libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes</userinput></screen>
  55. <variablelist>
  56. <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
  57. <varlistentry>
  58. <term><parameter>--host=$LFS_TGT, --build=$(../scripts/config.guess)</parameter></term>
  59. <listitem>
  60. <para>The combined effect of these switches is that Glibc's build system
  61. configures itself to cross-compile, using the cross-linker and
  62. cross-compiler in <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>.</para>
  63. </listitem>
  64. </varlistentry>
  65. <varlistentry>
  66. <term><parameter>--disable-profile</parameter></term>
  67. <listitem>
  68. <para>This builds the libraries without profiling information. Omit
  69. this option if profiling on the temporary tools is necessary.</para>
  70. </listitem>
  71. </varlistentry>
  72. <varlistentry>
  73. <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=&min-kernel;</parameter></term>
  74. <listitem>
  75. <para>This tells Glibc to compile the library with support
  76. for &min-kernel; and later Linux kernels. Workarounds for older
  77. kernels are not enabled.</para>
  78. </listitem>
  79. </varlistentry>
  80. <varlistentry>
  81. <term><parameter>--enable-obsolete-rpc</parameter></term>
  82. <listitem>
  83. <para>This installs NIS and RPC related headers that are not
  84. installed by default. They are required to build GCC and by
  85. several BLFS packages.</para>
  86. </listitem>
  87. </varlistentry>
  88. <varlistentry>
  89. <term><parameter>--with-headers=/tools/include</parameter></term>
  90. <listitem>
  91. <para>This tells Glibc to compile itself against the headers recently
  92. installed to the tools directory, so that it knows exactly what
  93. features the kernel has and can optimize itself accordingly.</para>
  94. </listitem>
  95. </varlistentry>
  96. <varlistentry>
  97. <term><parameter>libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes</parameter></term>
  98. <listitem>
  99. <para>The linker installed during
  100. <xref linkend="ch-tools-binutils-pass1"/> was cross-compiled and as
  101. such cannot be used until Glibc has been installed. This means that
  102. the configure test for force-unwind support will fail, as it relies on
  103. a working linker. The libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes variable is passed in
  104. order to inform <command>configure</command> that force-unwind
  105. support is available without it having to run the test.</para>
  106. </listitem>
  107. </varlistentry>
  108. <varlistentry>
  109. <term><parameter>libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes</parameter></term>
  110. <listitem>
  111. <para>Similarly, we pass libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes through to the
  112. <command>configure</command> script so that the test is skipped and C
  113. cleanup handling support is configured.</para>
  114. </listitem>
  115. </varlistentry>
  116. <varlistentry>
  117. <term><parameter>libc_cv_ctors_header=yes</parameter></term>
  118. <listitem>
  119. <para>Similarly, we pass libc_cv_ctors_header=yes through to the
  120. <command>configure</command> script so that the test is skipped and
  121. gcc constructor support is configured.</para>
  122. </listitem>
  123. </varlistentry>
  124. </variablelist>
  125. <para>During this stage the following warning might appear:</para>
  126. <blockquote>
  127. <screen><computeroutput>configure: WARNING:
  128. *** These auxiliary programs are missing or
  129. *** incompatible versions: msgfmt
  130. *** some features will be disabled.
  131. *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</computeroutput></screen>
  132. </blockquote>
  133. <para>The missing or incompatible <command>msgfmt</command> program is
  134. generally harmless. This <command>msgfmt</command> program is part of the
  135. Gettext package which the host distribution should provide.</para>
  136. <note><para>There have been reports that this package may fail when
  137. building as a "parallel make". If this occurs, rerun the make command
  138. with a "-j1" option.</para></note>
  139. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  140. <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  141. <!--
  142. <para>This package does come with a test suite, however, it cannot be
  143. run at this time because we do not have a C++ compiler yet.</para>
  144. <note>
  145. <para>The test suite also requires locale data to be installed in order to run
  146. successfully. Locale data provides information to the system regarding
  147. such things as the date, time, and currency formats accepted and output by
  148. system utilities. If the test suites are not being run in this chapter
  149. (as per the recommendation), there is no need to install the locales now.
  150. The appropriate locales will be installed in the next chapter. To install
  151. the Glibc locales anyway, use instructions from <xref
  152. linkend="ch-system-glibc" role="."/></para>
  153. </note>
  154. -->
  155. <para>Install the package:</para>
  156. <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
  157. <caution>
  158. <para>At this point, it is imperative to stop and ensure that the basic
  159. functions (compiling and linking) of the new toolchain are working as
  160. expected. To perform a sanity check, run the following commands:</para>
  161. <screen><userinput>echo 'int main(){}' &gt; dummy.c
  162. $LFS_TGT-gcc dummy.c
  163. readelf -l a.out | grep ': /tools'</userinput></screen>
  164. <para>If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors,
  165. and the output of the last command will be of the form:</para>
  166. <screen><computeroutput>[Requesting program interpreter: /tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2]</computeroutput></screen>
  167. <para>Note that for 64-bit machines, the interpreter name will be
  168. <filename>/tools/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</filename>.</para>
  169. <para>If the output is not shown as above or there was no output at all,
  170. then something is wrong. Investigate and retrace the steps to find out
  171. where the problem is and correct it. This issue must be resolved before
  172. continuing on.</para>
  173. <para>Once all is well, clean up the test files:</para>
  174. <screen><userinput>rm -v dummy.c a.out</userinput></screen>
  175. </caution>
  176. <note><para>Building Binutils in the section after next will serve as an
  177. additional check that the toolchain has been built properly. If Binutils
  178. fails to build, it is an indication that something has gone wrong with the
  179. previous Binutils, GCC, or Glibc installations.</para></note>
  180. </sect2>
  181. <sect2 role="content">
  182. <title/>
  183. <para>Details on this package are located in
  184. <xref linkend="contents-glibc" role="."/></para>
  185. </sect2>
  186. </sect1>