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8 <sect1 id="ch-tools-glibc" role="wrap">
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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">
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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>Fix a bug that prevents Glibc from building with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
48 <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-gcc_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
50 <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source
51 directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
53 <screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v ../glibc-build
54 cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
56 <para>Because Glibc no longer supports i386, its developers say to use the
57 compiler flag <parameter>-march=i486</parameter> when building it for x86
58 machines. There are several ways to accomplish that, but testing shows that
59 the flag is best placed inside the build variable <quote>CFLAGS</quote>.
60 Instead of overriding completely what Glibc's internal build system uses
61 for CFLAGS, append the new flag to the existing contents of CFLAGS by
62 making use of the special file <filename>configparms</filename>. The
63 -mtune=native flag is also necessary to reset a reasonable value for -mtune
64 that is changed when setting -march.</para>
66 <screen><userinput remap="configure">case `uname -m` in
67 i?86) echo "CFLAGS += -march=i486 -mtune=native" > configparms ;;
68 esac</userinput></screen>
70 <para>Next, prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
72 <screen><userinput remap="configure">../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/tools \
73 --host=$LFS_TGT --build=$(../glibc-&glibc-version;/scripts/config.guess) \
74 --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
75 --enable-kernel=2.6.22.5 --with-headers=/tools/include \
76 libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes</userinput></screen>
79 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
82 <term><parameter>--host=$LFS_TGT, --build=$(../glibc-&glibc-version;/scripts/config.guess)</parameter></term>
84 <para>The combined effect of these switches is that Glibc's build system
85 configures itself to cross-compile, using the cross-linker and
86 cross-compiler in <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>.</para>
91 <term><parameter>--disable-profile</parameter></term>
93 <para>This builds the libraries without profiling information. Omit
94 this option if profiling on the temporary tools is necessary.</para>
99 <term><parameter>--enable-add-ons</parameter></term>
101 <para>This tells Glibc to use the NPTL add-on as its threading
107 <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=2.6.18</parameter></term>
109 <para>This tells Glibc to compile the library with support
110 for 2.6.18 and later Linux kernels. Workarounds for older
111 kernels are not enabled.</para>
116 <term><parameter>--with-headers=/tools/include</parameter></term>
118 <para>This tells Glibc to compile itself against the headers recently
119 installed to the tools directory, so that it knows exactly what
120 features the kernel has and can optimize itself accordingly.</para>
125 <term><parameter>libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes</parameter></term>
127 <para>The linker installed during
128 <xref linkend="ch-tools-binutils-pass1"/> was cross-compiled and as
129 such cannot be used until Glibc has been installed. This means that
130 the configure test for force-unwind support will fail, as it relies on
131 a working linker. The libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes variable is passed in
132 order to inform <command>configure</command> that force-unwind
133 support is available without it having to run the test.</para>
137 <term><parameter>libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes</parameter></term>
139 <para>Simlarly, we pass libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes through to the
140 <command>configure</command> script so that the test is skipped and C
141 cleanup handling support is configured.</para>
147 <para>During this stage the following warning might appear:</para>
150 <screen><computeroutput>configure: WARNING:
151 *** These auxiliary programs are missing or
152 *** incompatible versions: msgfmt
153 *** some features will be disabled.
154 *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</computeroutput></screen>
157 <para>The missing or incompatible <command>msgfmt</command> program is
158 generally harmless. This <command>msgfmt</command> program is part of the
159 Gettext package which the host distribution should provide.</para>
161 <para>Compile the package:</para>
163 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
165 <para>This package does come with a test suite, however, it cannot be
166 run at this time because we do not have a C++ compiler yet.</para>
169 <para>The test suite also requires locale data to be installed in order to run
170 successfully. Locale data provides information to the system regarding
171 such things as the date, time, and currency formats accepted and output by
172 system utilities. If the test suites are not being run in this chapter
173 (as per the recommendation), there is no need to install the locales now.
174 The appropriate locales will be installed in the next chapter. To install
175 the Glibc locales anyway, use instructions from <xref
176 linkend="ch-system-glibc" role="."/></para>
179 <para>Install the package:</para>
181 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
185 <sect2 role="content">
188 <para>Details on this package are located in
189 <xref linkend="contents-glibc" role="."/></para>