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<copyright id="copyright">
<year>1999-2002</year>
<year>1999-2003</year>
<holder>Gerard Beekmans</holder>
</copyright>

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<sect2>
<title>Installation of Glibc</title>
<para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
install it.</para>
<para>Before starting to install glibc, you must cd into the
glibc-&glibc-version; directory and unpack glibc-linuxthreads inside
the glibc-&glibc-version; directory, not in /usr/src as you normally
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<para>Basically, compiling Glibc in any other way than the book suggests
is putting your system at very high risk.</para>
<para>Install Glibc by running the following commands:</para>
<para>We'll start by applying a patch to Glibc that fixes a few
things:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../glibc-&glibc-patch-version;.patch &amp;&amp;
touch /etc/ld.so.conf &amp;&amp;
mkdir ../glibc-build &amp;&amp;
cd ../glibc-build &amp;&amp;
../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr --disable-profile \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--enable-add-ons --libexecdir=/usr/bin &amp;&amp;
echo "cross-compiling = no" &gt; configparms &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install &amp;&amp;
make localedata/install-locales &amp;&amp;
exec /static/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen></para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>It converts all occurrences of <emphasis>$(PERL)</emphasis>
to <emphasis>/usr/bin/perl</emphasis> in the
<filename>malloc/Makefile</filename> file. This is done because Glibc
can't autodetect the location of perl because the Perl package hasn't been
installed yet.</para></listitem>
<para>An alternative to running <userinput>make
localedata/install-locales</userinput> is to only install those locales
which you need or want. This can be achieved using the localedef
command. Information on this can be found in the INSTALL
file in the glibc-&glibc-version; tree. One thing to note is that the
<userinput>localedef</userinput> program assumes that the <filename
class="directory">/usr/lib/locale</filename> directory exists, so you need
to create it first.</para>
<listitem><para>It replaces all occurrences of <emphasis>root</emphasis>
with <emphasis>0</emphasis> in the <filename>login/Makefile</filename>
file. This is done because Glibc itself isn't installed yet and therefore
username to userid resolving isn't working yet, so a
<userinput>chown root file</userinput> will fail, however it'll work fine
if you use the numeric IDs (such as <userinput>chown 0
file</userinput>).</para></listitem>
<para>The Linux Threads man pages are not going to be installed at this
point because it requires a working Perl installation. We'll install Perl
later on in this chapter, and the man pages will be installed when Glibc is
installed for the second time at the end of this chapter.</para>
<listitem><para>Lastly, the patch also fixes a problem that causes
statically linked binaries to crash that were linked against Glibc-2.2
libraries. This patch is only needed temporarily because we have static
programs in <filename class="directory">/static/bin</filename> that might
be linked against an older Glibc version (the one from the host
distribution). We will install Glibc again at the end of this chapter to
remove this patch so you'll have a pristine Glibc as the developers
intended it.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../glibc-&glibc-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Glibc will check for the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file
and abort with an error if the file is missing, so we create it.</para>
<para><screen><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen></para>
<para>It is recommended by the Glibc installation documentation to build
Glibc outside of the source directory in a dedicated directory. Let's
create such a directory and make it our CWD (Current Working
Directory).</para>
<para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../glibc-build &amp;&amp;
cd ../glibc-build &amp;&amp;</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Next, configure Glibc.</para>
<para><screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen></para>
<para>During the configure stage you will see the following warning:</para>
@ -63,5 +81,57 @@ you change the translation source files (the <filename>*.po</filename>
files in the <filename class="directory">po</filename> subdirectory) which
would require you to re-generate the binary files.</para>
<para>The meaning of the configure switches are:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><userinput>--disable-profile:</userinput> This disables the
building of libraries with profiling information. This command may be
omitted if you plan to do profiling.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><userinput>--enable-add-ons:</userinput> This enables the
add-on that we install with Glibc, linuxthreads</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><userinput>--libexecdir=/usr/bin:</userinput> This will
cause the pt_chown program to be installed in the /usr/bin
directory.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Because Glibc hasn't been installed yet, one of the tests that was
run by the configure script failed. This test is supposed to test gcc to
determine whether or not a cross-compiler is installed. However, Glibc
needs to be installed already to run this test. Since the test failed, the
configure script automatically assumed we do have a cross-compiler. So,
we have to override that assumption by explicitly telling Glibc we're not
cross-compiling.</para>
<para><screen><userinput>echo "cross-compiling = no" &gt; configparms</userinput></screen></para>
<para>We'll continue with compiling and installing Glibc. The Linuxthreads man
pages are not going to be installed at this point because it requires a
working Perl installation. We'll install Perl later on in this chapter,
and the man pages will be installed when Glibc is installed for the second
time at the end of this chapter.</para>
<para><screen><userinput>make &amp;&amp;
make install</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Locales aren't installed by default so we install them now. Locales
are used by Glibc to make your Linux system talk in a different language
such as your native tongue.</para>
<para><screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen></para>
<para>An alternative to running <userinput>make
localedata/install-locales</userinput> is to only install those locales
which you need or want. This can be achieved using the localedef
command. Information on this can be found in the INSTALL
file in the glibc-&glibc-version; tree.</para>
<para>To finish off the installation we'll reload Bash so it uses the new
libnss files. This will get rid of the <emphasis>I have no name!</emphasis>
message in the command prompt.</para>
<para><screen><userinput>exec /static/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen></para>
</sect2>

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Estimated required disk space: &glibc-compsize;</screen>
&c6-glibc-inst;
&c6-glibc-exp;
&aa-glibc-desc;
&aa-glibc-dep;

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<!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml">
<!ENTITY version "20021231">
<!ENTITY releasedate "December 31st, 2002">
<!ENTITY version "20030101">
<!ENTITY releasedate "January 1st, 2003">
<!ENTITY ftp-root "ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org">
<!ENTITY http-root "http://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org">
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&book;
</book>