diff --git a/chapter06/chapter06.xml b/chapter06/chapter06.xml index f1963a4e9..b92e9a9de 100644 --- a/chapter06/chapter06.xml +++ b/chapter06/chapter06.xml @@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ &c6-dejagnu; &c6-gcc-2953; &c6-kernel-manpages; -&c6-glibc-pass2; &c6-revisedchroot; &c6-bootscripts; &c6-configure; diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-pass2-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-pass2-inst.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 5fde85f3b..000000000 --- a/chapter06/glibc-pass2-inst.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,71 +0,0 @@ -   - - -Installation of Glibc - -At the beginning of this chapter you installed Glibc and applied a -patch to it. Part of this patch was undoing some changes to make static -binaries compiled against Glibc-2.2 work. However, this is not what the -Glibc developers intended and we don't need to keep this modified Glibc -around. So we reinstall Glibc here to remove this patch. - -A second reason to install Glibc again is because it's considered -cleaner. The first Glibc was installed using programs compiled on your host -distribution which sometimes has the effect of tainting Glibc. While this -isn't a problem with the other packages compiled early in this chapter, for -Glibc we want to be sure it's 100% OK (although feel free to reinstall -other packages at this point so you can say you compiled an LFS system with -LFS. Much like GCC's bootstrap installation method). - -We'll also install the linuxthreads man pages here. As you may -recall, during the first installation of Glibc this wasn't possible because -Perl wasn't installed yet. Now that everything needed to install the Glibc -linuxthreads man pages is present as well, we will install those too. - -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 -would do. - -This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its -default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). -Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override -default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting -or modifying them when building Glibc. You have been warned. - -Basically, compiling Glibc in any other way than the book suggests -is putting your system at very high risk. - -It is recommended by the Glibc installation documentation to build -Glibc outside of the source tree. Create the build directory: - -mkdir ../glibc-build && -cd ../glibc-build - -Next, prepare Glibc to be compiled: - -../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr --disable-profile \ -    --enable-add-ons --libexecdir=/usr/bin - -Continue with compiling the package: - -make - -Begin package installation: - -make install - -Build the linuxthreads man pages: - -make -C ../glibc-&glibc-version;/linuxthreads/man - -Install the man pages: - -make -C ../glibc-&glibc-version;/linuxthreads/man install - -Complete package installation by relaunching bash: - -exec /bin/bash --login - - - diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-pass2.xml b/chapter06/glibc-pass2.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 9f06080b5..000000000 --- a/chapter06/glibc-pass2.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ - -Installing Glibc-&glibc-version; - - -Estimated build time: &glibc-pass2-time; -Estimated required disk space: &glibc-pass2-compsize; - -&aa-glibc-shortdesc; -&aa-glibc-dep; -&c6-glibc-pass2-inst; - - - diff --git a/entities/glibc.ent b/entities/glibc.ent index bc44df6ff..f21b23823 100644 --- a/entities/glibc.ent +++ b/entities/glibc.ent @@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ - -