Author: jhuntwork
Date: 2006-01-25 19:35:40 -0700 (Wed, 25 Jan 2006)
New Revision: 7305
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter06/glibc.xml
Log:
Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test the correct Glibc.
Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report and Greg Schafer for the
fix.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2006-01-26 02:05:59 UTC (rev 7304)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2006-01-26 02:35:40 UTC (rev 7305)
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@
<para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
patch.
Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
+ the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the
report
+ and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter06/glibc.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter06/glibc.xml 2006-01-26 02:05:59 UTC (rev 7304)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter06/glibc.xml 2006-01-26 02:35:40 UTC (rev 7305)
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
Unpack the tarball from within the Glibc source
directory:</para>
-<screen><userinput>tar jxf
../glibc-libidn-&glibc-version;.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>tar -xf
../glibc-libidn-&glibc-version;.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>
<para>In the vi_VN.TCVN locale, <command>bash</command> enters an infinite loop
at startup. It is unknown whether this is a <command>bash</command> bug or a
@@ -64,6 +64,17 @@
<screen><userinput>sed -i '/vi_VN.TCVN/d'
localedata/SUPPORTED</userinput></screen>
+<para>When running <command>make install</command>, a script called
+<filename>test-installation.pl</filename> performs a small sanity test
+on our newly installed Glibc. However, because our toolchain still points to
the
+<filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory, the sanity test would
+be carried out against the wrong Glibc. We can force the script to check the
+Glibc we have just installed with the following:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i \
+'s|libs -o|libs -L/usr/lib -Wl,-dynamic-linker=/lib/ld-linux.so.2 -o|' \
+ scripts/test-installation.pl</userinput></screen>
+
<para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source
directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
@@ -267,7 +278,7 @@
<sect2 id="conf-ld" role="configuration">
-<title>Configuring Dynamic Loader</title>
+<title>Configuring the Dynamic Loader</title>
<indexterm zone="conf-ld"><primary
sortas="e-/etc/ld.so.conf">/etc/ld.so.conf</primary></indexterm>
<para>By default, the dynamic loader (<filename
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