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author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 2003-01-15 07:15:24 +0000 |
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committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 2003-01-15 07:15:24 +0000 |
commit | a8d87c92cd0f6705c4adb5b8ab786aed249380c6 (patch) | |
tree | 3294c0aa322e7c6ae8dc552eabacbdda84c785ec /manual | |
parent | 574b892ef1054ea999a136b3cb2321a65e3f1a17 (diff) |
Update.
2003-01-14 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
* manual/install.texi: Correct description of header preparation for
Linux build. Patch by mhwood@Ameritech.Net [PR libc/4941].
Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
-rw-r--r-- | manual/install.texi | 24 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index 1c366d5723..0e60128e72 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -504,12 +504,24 @@ include/linux/version.h}. Finally, configure glibc with the option kernel you can get your hands on. An alternate tactic is to unpack the 2.2 kernel and run @samp{make -config} as above; then, rename or delete @file{/usr/include}, create -a new @file{/usr/include}, and make the usual symbolic links of -@file{/usr/include/linux} and @file{/usr/include/asm} into the 2.2 -kernel sources. You can then configure glibc with no special options. -This tactic is recommended if you are upgrading from libc5, since you -need to get rid of the old header files anyway. +config} as above; then, rename or delete @file{/usr/include}, create a +new @file{/usr/include}, and make symbolic links of +@file{/usr/include/linux} and @file{/usr/include/asm} into the kernel +sources. You can then configure glibc with no special options. This +tactic is recommended if you are upgrading from libc5, since you need to +get rid of the old header files anyway. + +After installing GNU libc, you may need to remove or rename +@file{/usr/include/linux} and @file{/usr/include/asm}, and replace them +with copies of @file{include/linux} and +@file{include/asm-$@var{ARCHITECTURE}} taken from the Linux source +package which supplied kernel headers for building the library. +@var{ARCHITECTURE} will be the machine architecture for which the +library was built, such as @samp{i386} or @samp{alpha}. You do not need +to do this if you did not specify an alternate kernel header source +using @samp{--with-headers}. The intent here is that these directories +should be copies of, @strong{not} symlinks to, the kernel headers used to +build the library. Note that @file{/usr/include/net} and @file{/usr/include/scsi} should @strong{not} be symlinks into the kernel sources. GNU libc provides its |