On 2019-04-04 16:43 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 4/4/19 4:11 PM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > I've been testing several things for glibc in chapter 6 recently: > > > > - glibc-2.29 has introduced a hard dependency on Python 3. Previous versions > > were only dependent on perl. So I wondered whether perl was still a > > dependency. It turns out that glibc can be built without perl, but that some > > (24 exactly) tests are marked FAIL, because they run "mtrace", which is a > > perl > > script. Note that even if we do not care about those failures, perl must be > > built in chapter 5 because other packages need it: the first one I've found > > in > > our build order is "bc". > > > > - the current build method in SVN is good for preventing debug information > > from beginning with /tools. /tools is still mentioned at a few places, > > because > > the gcc libraries are statically linked, and they have been compiled without > > the option -ffile-prefix-map. This could be prevented too, but it is not > > worth > > the hassle. > > > > - while testing, I found that the current build method _uses_ the kernel API > > headers from /tools/include, while it should use the ones we have just > > installed in /usr/include (it's not a problem with debug information here, > > rather a problem with what is used for building the library). For me, this > > is > > rather bad, since we cannot be sure that the API headers in /tools/include > > have not been modified during chapter 5. > > > > To use the just installed kernel API headers, the switch > > "--with-headers=/usr/include" should be passed to configure. I could add > > that > > to the book instructions, but it seems nobody cares (maybe it was not at the > > right place, or with the right wording, but I think I've written three times > > about that, and the only return I've had was about debug information.)
LGTM. I suggest to commit this change. But I thought you'd already commited it so I didn't replied :(. -- Xi Ruoyao <xry...@mengyan1223.wang> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
