Author: ken
Date: Sat Jun 30 14:18:19 2018
New Revision: 20215
Log:
Remove old text about symlinking a dbg version of ld: for any LFS build from
the last fourteen months that will make the system both unusable and unbootable.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/general/prog/valgrind.xml
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/networking/netlibs/curl.xml
trunk/BOOK/x/installing/libinput.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent Thu Jun 28 14:48:01 2018 (r20214)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent Sat Jun 30 14:18:19 2018 (r20215)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
<!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
-<!ENTITY day "28"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "30"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "06"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2018">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
<!ENTITY copyholder "The BLFS Development Team">
<!ENTITY version "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "June 28th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "June 30th, &year;">
<!ENTITY pubdate "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn"> <!-- svn|[release #] -->
<!ENTITY lfs-version "development"> <!-- x.y|development -->
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general/prog/valgrind.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general/prog/valgrind.xml Thu Jun 28 14:48:01 2018
(r20214)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general/prog/valgrind.xml Sat Jun 30 14:18:19 2018
(r20215)
@@ -117,29 +117,6 @@
--datadir=/usr/share/doc/valgrind-&valgrind-version; &&
make</userinput></screen>
- <note>
- <para>
- To run the tests for this package, valgrind requires a version of the
- /lib/ld-2.26.so (or later) library with debugging symbols present.
- Normally in LFS these debugging symbols are stripped at the end of
- Chapter 6. To get this library, glibc must be rebuilt with the current
- glibc version using the same compiler that was used to build LFS. The
- ld.so can then be renamed to ld-2.26.so.dbg and copied to /lib.
- Then a symlink needs to be changed:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sfv ld-2.26.so.dbg
/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>
- Adjust the above instruction as needed for a 32-bit system or for a
- different version of glibc.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- In addition, other glibc libraries with debugging symbols present
- may be needed for some tests.
- </para>
- </note>
-
<para>
To test the results, issue: <command>make regtest</command>. The tests
may hang forever if <xref linkend="gdb"/> is not installed. Some tests
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Thu Jun 28 14:48:01
2018 (r20214)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Sat Jun 30 14:18:19
2018 (r20215)
@@ -45,6 +45,18 @@
<para>June 28th, 2018</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Remove obsolete text from valgrind re symlinking
ld-linux
+ to a .dbg version of ld. In April 2017 LFS changed the strip
commands.
+ That file now only contains debug symbols and is loaded when needed:
+ making the symlink breaks the system. Remove related text from
curl.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>June 28th, 2018</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
<para>[ken] - Update to fribidi-1.0.4. Fixes
<ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10857">#10857</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/networking/netlibs/curl.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/networking/netlibs/curl.xml Thu Jun 28 14:48:01 2018
(r20214)
+++ trunk/BOOK/networking/netlibs/curl.xml Sat Jun 30 14:18:19 2018
(r20215)
@@ -159,33 +159,10 @@
Still a lot of test failures. I did have c-ares, Kerberos, and ldap
installed this time. Best guess is that servers are not available.
-->
- <note>
- <para>
- If running the tests for this package with valgrind, it will require a
- version of /lib/ld-2.[MINORVERSION].so library
- with debugging symbols present.
- </para>
-
- <para>Current versions of LFS do not strip /lib/ld-[MINORVERSION].so but
- previous versions of LFS stripped these debugging symbols at the end of
- Chapter 6. To get this library on older systems, glibc must be rebuilt
- with the currently running
- glibc version using the same compiler that was used to build LFS. The
- ld-[MINORVERSION].so can then be renamed to ld-2.[MINORVERSION].so.dbg
- and copied to /lib. Then a symlink needs to be changed:
- </para>
-
- <screen role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sfv ld-2.[MINORVERSION].so.dbg
/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>
- Adjust the above instruction as needed for a 32-bit system
- and to match your installed version of glibc.
- </para>
- </note>
<para>
To run the test suite, issue: <command>make test</command>. Two (of 857)
tests
- failsfor unknown reasons.<!--
+ fail for unknown reasons.<!--
Added by Pierre for curl-7.59.0:
no stunnel, no valgrind, no options
Warning: smb server unexpectedly alive
Modified: trunk/BOOK/x/installing/libinput.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/x/installing/libinput.xml Thu Jun 28 14:48:01 2018
(r20214)
+++ trunk/BOOK/x/installing/libinput.xml Sat Jun 30 14:18:19 2018
(r20215)
@@ -123,19 +123,6 @@
<command>meson</command> command above. The external
library, libunwind, must be installed.</para>
- <para> To run the tests for this package, valgrind requires a version of
- the /lib/ld-2.23.so (or later) library with debugging symbols present.
- Normally in LFS these debugging symbols are stripped at the end of
- Chapter 6. To get this library, glibc must be rebuilt with the current
- glibc version using the same compiler that was used to build LFS. The
- ld-2.23.so can then be renamed to ld-2.23.so.dbg and copied to /lib.
- Then a symlink needs to be changed:</para>
-
- <screen role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sfv ld-2.23.so.dbg
/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Adjust the above instruction as needed for a 32-bit system
- or for a different version of glibc</para>
-
</note>
<para>
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