| 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253 | <sect2><title>Installation of Glibc</title><para>Before starting to install glibc, unpack the glibc-2.2.3-nss.difffile in the $LFS/usr/src tree.  Then, once glibc has been unpacked as usual and you have cd'ed into theglibc-&glibc-version; directory, unpack glibc-linuxthreads insidethe glibc-&glibc-version; directory, not in /usr/src as you normallywould do.</para><para>Install Glibc by running the following commands:</para><para><screen><userinput>patch -Np0 -i ../glibc-2.2.3-nss.diff &&</userinput><userinput>mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3 &&</userinput><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf &&</userinput><userinput>mkdir ../glibc-build &&</userinput><userinput>cd ../glibc-build &&</userinput><userinput>sed s/"\$(PERL)"/"\/usr\/bin\/perl"/ \</userinput><userinput>   ../glibc-&glibc-version;/malloc/Makefile > tmp~ &&</userinput><userinput>mv tmp~ ../glibc-&glibc-version;/malloc/Makefile &&</userinput><userinput>sed "s/root/0/" ../glibc-&glibc-version;/login/Makefile > tmp~ &&</userinput><userinput>mv tmp~ ../glibc-&glibc-version;/login/Makefile &&</userinput><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure \</userinput><userinput>   --prefix=/usr --enable-add-ons \</userinput><userinput>   --libexecdir=/usr/bin &&</userinput><userinput>sed s/"cross-compiling = yes"/"cross-compiling = no"/ \</userinput><userinput>   config.make > config.make~ &&</userinput><userinput>mv config.make~ config.make &&</userinput><userinput>make &&</userinput><userinput>make install &&</userinput><userinput>make localedata/install-locales &&</userinput><userinput>logout</userinput>&c6-chrootcmd;</screen></para><para>During the configure stage you will see the following warning:</para><blockquote><screen>configure: warning:*** An auxiliary program is missing or too old;*** some features will be disabled.*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</screen></blockquote><para> This warning refers to the missing msgfmt program from thegettext package, but it can safely be ignored in our case.  The glibc installation will not be affected.</para><para>The last two commands make you exit and re-enter the chroot'ed environment. This is done to get rid of the "I haveno name!" message in the command prompt, which was caused by bash'sinability to resolve a userid to a username (which in turn was caused bythe missing Glibc installation).</para></sect2>
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