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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. <para>Fix a bug that prevents Glibc from building with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
  36. <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-gcc_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
  37. <para>Also address a header check that fails due to an incomplete build
  38. environment at this point:</para>
  39. <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-cpuid-patch;</userinput></screen>
  40. <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source
  41. directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
  42. <screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v ../glibc-build
  43. cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
  44. <para>Because Glibc no longer supports i386, its developers say to use the
  45. compiler flag <parameter>-march=i486</parameter> when building it for x86
  46. machines. There are several ways to accomplish that, but testing shows that
  47. the flag is best placed inside the build variable <quote>CFLAGS</quote>.
  48. Instead of overriding completely what Glibc's internal build system uses
  49. for CFLAGS, append the new flag to the existing contents of CFLAGS by
  50. making use of the special file <filename>configparms</filename>. The
  51. -mtune=native flag is also necessary to reset a reasonable value for -mtune
  52. that is changed when setting -march.</para>
  53. <screen><userinput remap="configure">case `uname -m` in
  54. i?86) echo "CFLAGS += -march=i486 -mtune=native" &gt; configparms ;;
  55. esac</userinput></screen>
  56. <para>Next, prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
  57. <screen><userinput remap="configure">../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure \
  58. --prefix=/tools \
  59. --host=$LFS_TGT \
  60. --build=$(../glibc-&glibc-version;/scripts/config.guess) \
  61. --disable-profile \
  62. --enable-add-ons \
  63. --enable-kernel=2.6.25 \
  64. --with-headers=/tools/include \
  65. libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes \
  66. libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes</userinput></screen>
  67. <variablelist>
  68. <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
  69. <varlistentry>
  70. <term><parameter>--host=$LFS_TGT, --build=$(../glibc-&glibc-version;/scripts/config.guess)</parameter></term>
  71. <listitem>
  72. <para>The combined effect of these switches is that Glibc's build system
  73. configures itself to cross-compile, using the cross-linker and
  74. cross-compiler in <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>.</para>
  75. </listitem>
  76. </varlistentry>
  77. <varlistentry>
  78. <term><parameter>--disable-profile</parameter></term>
  79. <listitem>
  80. <para>This builds the libraries without profiling information. Omit
  81. this option if profiling on the temporary tools is necessary.</para>
  82. </listitem>
  83. </varlistentry>
  84. <varlistentry>
  85. <term><parameter>--enable-add-ons</parameter></term>
  86. <listitem>
  87. <para>This tells Glibc to use the NPTL add-on as its threading
  88. library.</para>
  89. </listitem>
  90. </varlistentry>
  91. <varlistentry>
  92. <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=2.6.25</parameter></term>
  93. <listitem>
  94. <para>This tells Glibc to compile the library with support
  95. for 2.6.25 and later Linux kernels. Workarounds for older
  96. kernels are not enabled.</para>
  97. </listitem>
  98. </varlistentry>
  99. <varlistentry>
  100. <term><parameter>--with-headers=/tools/include</parameter></term>
  101. <listitem>
  102. <para>This tells Glibc to compile itself against the headers recently
  103. installed to the tools directory, so that it knows exactly what
  104. features the kernel has and can optimize itself accordingly.</para>
  105. </listitem>
  106. </varlistentry>
  107. <varlistentry>
  108. <term><parameter>libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes</parameter></term>
  109. <listitem>
  110. <para>The linker installed during
  111. <xref linkend="ch-tools-binutils-pass1"/> was cross-compiled and as
  112. such cannot be used until Glibc has been installed. This means that
  113. the configure test for force-unwind support will fail, as it relies on
  114. a working linker. The libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes variable is passed in
  115. order to inform <command>configure</command> that force-unwind
  116. support is available without it having to run the test.</para>
  117. </listitem>
  118. </varlistentry>
  119. <varlistentry>
  120. <term><parameter>libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes</parameter></term>
  121. <listitem>
  122. <para>Simlarly, we pass libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes through to the
  123. <command>configure</command> script so that the test is skipped and C
  124. cleanup handling support is configured.</para>
  125. </listitem>
  126. </varlistentry>
  127. </variablelist>
  128. <para>During this stage the following warning might appear:</para>
  129. <blockquote>
  130. <screen><computeroutput>configure: WARNING:
  131. *** These auxiliary programs are missing or
  132. *** incompatible versions: msgfmt
  133. *** some features will be disabled.
  134. *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</computeroutput></screen>
  135. </blockquote>
  136. <para>The missing or incompatible <command>msgfmt</command> program is
  137. generally harmless. This <command>msgfmt</command> program is part of the
  138. Gettext package which the host distribution should provide.</para>
  139. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  140. <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  141. <para>This package does come with a test suite, however, it cannot be
  142. run at this time because we do not have a C++ compiler yet.</para>
  143. <note>
  144. <para>The test suite also requires locale data to be installed in order to run
  145. successfully. Locale data provides information to the system regarding
  146. such things as the date, time, and currency formats accepted and output by
  147. system utilities. If the test suites are not being run in this chapter
  148. (as per the recommendation), there is no need to install the locales now.
  149. The appropriate locales will be installed in the next chapter. To install
  150. the Glibc locales anyway, use instructions from <xref
  151. linkend="ch-system-glibc" role="."/></para>
  152. </note>
  153. <para>Install the package:</para>
  154. <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
  155. </sect2>
  156. <sect2 role="content">
  157. <title/>
  158. <para>Details on this package are located in
  159. <xref linkend="contents-glibc" role="."/></para>
  160. </sect2>
  161. </sect1>