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8 <sect1 id="ch-tools-glibc" role="wrap">
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11 <sect1info condition="script">
12 <productname>glibc</productname>
13 <productnumber>&glibc-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&glibc-url;</address>
17 <title>Glibc-&glibc-version;</title>
19 <indexterm zone="ch-tools-glibc">
20 <primary sortas="a-Glibc">Glibc</primary>
21 <secondary>tools</secondary>
24 <sect2 role="package">
27 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
28 href="../chapter06/glibc.xml"
29 xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
32 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
33 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
36 <seg>&glibc-ch5-sbu;</seg>
37 <seg>&glibc-ch5-du;</seg>
43 <sect2 role="installation">
44 <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
46 <para>In some cases, particularly LFS 7.1, the rpc headers were not
47 installed properly. Test to see if they are installed in the host system
48 and install if they are not:</para>
50 <screen><userinput remap="pre">if [ ! -r /usr/include/rpc/types.h ]; then
51 su -c 'mkdir -pv /usr/include/rpc'
52 su -c 'cp -v sunrpc/rpc/*.h /usr/include/rpc'
53 fi</userinput></screen>
55 <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source
56 directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
58 <screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v ../glibc-build
59 cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
61 <para>Because Glibc no longer supports i386, its developers say to use the
62 compiler flag <parameter>-march=i486</parameter> when building it for x86
63 machines. There are several ways to accomplish that, but testing shows that
64 the flag is best placed inside the build variable <quote>CFLAGS</quote>.
65 Instead of overriding completely what Glibc's internal build system uses
66 for CFLAGS, append the new flag to the existing contents of CFLAGS by
67 making use of the special file <filename>configparms</filename>. The
68 -mtune=native flag is also necessary to reset a reasonable value for -mtune
69 that is changed when setting -march.</para>
71 <screen><userinput remap="configure">case `uname -m` in
72 i?86) echo "CFLAGS += -march=i486 -mtune=native" > configparms ;;
73 esac</userinput></screen>
76 <para>Next, prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
78 <screen><userinput remap="configure">../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure \
81 --build=$(../glibc-&glibc-version;/scripts/config.guess) \
83 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
84 --with-headers=/tools/include \
85 libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes \
86 libc_cv_ctors_header=yes \
87 libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes</userinput></screen>
90 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
93 <term><parameter>--host=$LFS_TGT, --build=$(../glibc-&glibc-version;/scripts/config.guess)</parameter></term>
95 <para>The combined effect of these switches is that Glibc's build system
96 configures itself to cross-compile, using the cross-linker and
97 cross-compiler in <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>.</para>
102 <term><parameter>--disable-profile</parameter></term>
104 <para>This builds the libraries without profiling information. Omit
105 this option if profiling on the temporary tools is necessary.</para>
110 <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=&min-kernel;</parameter></term>
112 <para>This tells Glibc to compile the library with support
113 for &min-kernel; and later Linux kernels. Workarounds for older
114 kernels are not enabled.</para>
119 <term><parameter>--with-headers=/tools/include</parameter></term>
121 <para>This tells Glibc to compile itself against the headers recently
122 installed to the tools directory, so that it knows exactly what
123 features the kernel has and can optimize itself accordingly.</para>
128 <term><parameter>libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes</parameter></term>
130 <para>The linker installed during
131 <xref linkend="ch-tools-binutils-pass1"/> was cross-compiled and as
132 such cannot be used until Glibc has been installed. This means that
133 the configure test for force-unwind support will fail, as it relies on
134 a working linker. The libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes variable is passed in
135 order to inform <command>configure</command> that force-unwind
136 support is available without it having to run the test.</para>
140 <term><parameter>libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes</parameter></term>
142 <para>Simlarly, we pass libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes through to the
143 <command>configure</command> script so that the test is skipped and C
144 cleanup handling support is configured.</para>
148 <term><parameter>libc_cv_ctors_header=yes</parameter></term>
150 <para>Simlarly, we pass libc_cv_ctors_header=yes through to the
151 <command>configure</command> script so that the test is skipped and
152 gcc constructor support is configured.</para>
158 <para>During this stage the following warning might appear:</para>
161 <screen><computeroutput>configure: WARNING:
162 *** These auxiliary programs are missing or
163 *** incompatible versions: msgfmt
164 *** some features will be disabled.
165 *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</computeroutput></screen>
168 <para>The missing or incompatible <command>msgfmt</command> program is
169 generally harmless. This <command>msgfmt</command> program is part of the
170 Gettext package which the host distribution should provide.</para>
172 <para>Compile the package:</para>
174 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
177 <para>This package does come with a test suite, however, it cannot be
178 run at this time because we do not have a C++ compiler yet.</para>
181 <para>The test suite also requires locale data to be installed in order to run
182 successfully. Locale data provides information to the system regarding
183 such things as the date, time, and currency formats accepted and output by
184 system utilities. If the test suites are not being run in this chapter
185 (as per the recommendation), there is no need to install the locales now.
186 The appropriate locales will be installed in the next chapter. To install
187 the Glibc locales anyway, use instructions from <xref
188 linkend="ch-system-glibc" role="."/></para>
191 <para>Install the package:</para>
193 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
196 <para>At this point, it is imperative to stop and ensure that the basic
197 functions (compiling and linking) of the new toolchain are working as
198 expected. To perform a sanity check, run the following commands:</para>
200 <screen><userinput>echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c
202 readelf -l a.out | grep ': /tools'</userinput></screen>
204 <para>If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors,
205 and the output of the last command will be of the form:</para>
207 <screen><computeroutput>[Requesting program interpreter: /tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2]</computeroutput></screen>
209 <para>Note that <filename class="directory">/tools/lib</filename>, or
210 <filename class="directory">/tools/lib64</filename> for 64-bit machines
211 appears as the prefix of the dynamic linker.</para>
213 <para>If the output is not shown as above or there was no output at all,
214 then something is wrong. Investigate and retrace the steps to find out
215 where the problem is and correct it. This issue must be resolved before
216 continuing on.</para>
218 <para>Once all is well, clean up the test files:</para>
220 <screen><userinput>rm -v dummy.c a.out</userinput></screen>
224 <note><para>Building Binutils in the section after next will serve as an
225 additional check that the toolchain has been built properly. If Binutils
226 fails to build, it is an indication that something has gone wrong with the
227 previous Binutils, GCC, or Glibc installations.</para></note>
231 <sect2 role="content">
234 <para>Details on this package are located in
235 <xref linkend="contents-glibc" role="."/></para>