chapter06/glibc.xml

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   6 <sect1 id="ch-system-glibc" xreflabel="Glibc" role="wrap">
   7 <title>Glibc-&glibc-version;</title>
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   9
  10 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc"><primary sortas="a-Glibc">Glibc</primary></indexterm>
  11
  12 <sect2 role="package"><title/>
  13
  14 <segmentedlist>
  15 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  16 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  17 <seglistitem><seg>12.3 SBU</seg><seg>784 MB</seg></seglistitem>
  18 </segmentedlist>
  19
  20 </sect2>
  21
  22 <sect2 role="installation">
  23 <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
  24
  25 <para>Create a build directory:</para>
  26
  27 <screen><userinput>mkdir ../glibc-build
  28 cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
  29
  30 <para>Now prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
  31
  32 <screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
  33     --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
  34     --enable-kernel=2.6.0 --without-cvs \
  35     --libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc</userinput></screen>
  36
  37 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  38
  39 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  40
  41 <para>Test the results:</para>
  42
  43 <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
  44
  45 <para>The Glibc test suite is highly dependent on certain functions of your host
  46 system. See testing for explanations.</para>
  47
  48 <para>Fix an annoying little warning with:</para>
  49
  50 <screen><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
  51
  52 <para>And install the package:</para>
  53
  54 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  55
  56 <para>To install the Glibc locales, use the following
  57 command:</para>
  58
  59 <screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
  60
  61 <para>An alternative to running the previous command is to install only those
  62 locales which you need or want. The following instructions, instead of the
  63 install-locales target above, will install the minimum set of locales necessary
  64 for the tests to run successfully:</para>
  65
  66 <screen><userinput>mkdir -p /usr/lib/locale
  67 localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
  68 localedef -i de_DE@euro -f ISO-8859-15 de_DE@euro
  69 localedef -i en_HK -f ISO-8859-1 en_HK
  70 localedef -i en_PH -f ISO-8859-1 en_PH
  71 localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US
  72 localedef -i es_MX -f ISO-8859-1 es_MX
  73 localedef -i fa_IR -f UTF-8 fa_IR
  74 localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR
  75 localedef -i fr_FR@euro -f ISO-8859-15 fr_FR@euro
  76 localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
  77 localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP</userinput></screen>
  78
  79 <para>Build the linuxthreads man pages:</para>
  80
  81 <screen><userinput>make -C ../glibc-&glibc-version;/linuxthreads/man</userinput></screen>
  82
  83 <para>And install these pages:</para>
  84
  85 <screen><userinput>make -C ../glibc-&glibc-version;/linuxthreads/man install</userinput></screen>
  86
  87 </sect2>
  88
  89
  90 <sect2 id="conf-glibc" role="configuration"><title>Configuring Glibc</title>
  91
  92 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> by running the
  93 following:</para>
  94
  95 <screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/nsswitch.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
  96 <literal># Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf
  97
  98 passwd: files
  99 group: files
 100 shadow: files
 101
 102 hosts: files dns
 103 networks: files
 104
 105 protocols: files
 106 services: files
 107 ethers: files
 108 rpc: files
 109
 110 # End /etc/nsswitch.conf</literal>
 111 EOF</userinput></screen>
 112
 113 <para>To find out what time zone you're in, run the following script:</para>
 114
 115 <screen><userinput>tzselect</userinput></screen>
 116
 117 <para>Then create the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file by running:</para>
 118
 119 <screen><userinput>cp --remove-destination /usr/share/zoneinfo/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> \
 120     /etc/localtime</userinput></screen>
 121
 122 </sect2>
 123
 124
 125 <sect2 id="conf-ld" role="configuration">
 126 <title>Configuring Dynamic Loader</title>
 127
 128 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> by running the
 129 following:</para>
 130
 131 <screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
 132 <literal># Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
 133
 134 /usr/local/lib
 135 /opt/lib
 136
 137 # End /etc/ld.so.conf</literal>
 138 EOF</userinput></screen>
 139
 140 </sect2>
 141
 142
 143 <sect2 id="contents-glibc" role="content"><title>Contents of Glibc</title>
 144
 145 <para>See testing</para>
 146
 147 </sect2>
 148
 149 </sect1>