Hi i am tryingto understand where to compile this packet.
I read from the manual :... "you must cd into the glibc-2.3.2 directory and unpack Glibc-linuxthreads in that directory, not the direcoty you usually unpack all the sources"

So i must create a new directory with name glibc-2.3.2 at the same level with my sources directory?

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Hi,

No, what the manual says to you is you have to unpack first the glibc package and then copy the glibc-linuxthreads-2.3.2.tar.gz/bz2 in the glibc-2.3.2 directory and then you enter the directoyry, unpack the linuxthreads package, delete it (just for not wasting disk space having a package in two different locations) and you're done... you'll find yourself with the glibc 2.3.2 source tree plus linuxthreads... that's what the manual tries to say to you...

Hope this helps you

Julio

Oops, forgotten something important...

If you want to compile Glibc, and if you're using, of course, the LFS book (regardless of the version) you must compile it in a separate directory from the sources...

So after you're done with the linuxthreads add-on procedure you find yourself in the directory level $LFS/sources/glibc-2.3.2 (that's /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.3.2 or the name you choose to use, in my case was dolphin)

then, you must create a directory for compiling glibc (in my case, I just followed the book instructions), so you can do the following (command line prompt adjusted for my case):

dolphin@linuxbox[glibc-2.3.2] mkdir ../glibc-build
dolphin@linuxbox[glibc-2.3.2] cd ../glibc-build

and then you can continue with the book:

dolphin@linuxbox[glibc-build] ../glibc-2.3.2/configure --prefix=/tools ... and so on

Hope this helps

Julio

dolphin@linuxbox[glibc-2.3.2] mkdir ../glibc-buil
dolphin@linuxbox[glibc-2.3.2] cd ../glibc-build

thx...do u think if it is a problem to create the libc-build directory at the ../../glibc
(The directory willbe created at the same level with sources dir...)

Hi,

I'm not really sure, what the book suggest us is to build glibc outside the source tree, so as the book suggests I have my packages at $LFS/sources (in my case, $DOLPHIN/sources) and in that directory is where i create the glibc-build directory... just to follow the book instructions...

Julio

So everything must be compiled in the $LFS/sources dir?

Well, as I followed the steps given by the book and following them takes you to the $LFS/sources directory to unpack the packages, i could say 'yes', but I suppose you could compile the packages in another directory, although I'm not sure and don't take what I've said right now as completely true. In my personal experience, it worked very well for me that way, that's making the directories in the $LFS/sources directory, so if i have to compile glibc i'll have a directory called glibc-build whose absolute location it's going to be $LFS/sources/glibc-build and so on...

That schema (that's the one suggested by the book) worked fine for me, with other kind of packages like bison, flex, perl, you don't have to make a separate directory, you just compile them in the directories they respectively create when you unpack them

Julio