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author | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2012-03-08 01:27:38 +0000 |
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committer | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2012-03-08 01:27:38 +0000 |
commit | a7a93d5086103f52367d3e9776976eb0b0bc6c7b (patch) | |
tree | a6c659fdb9c384d56bd8c01a55c9332e791f1341 /manual/install.texi | |
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Clean up glibc manual references to "GNU system" (bug 6911).
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diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index 03cab71845..00db2b8478 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ directory, especially some files in the manual subdirectory. mandatory is @samp{--prefix}. This option tells @code{configure} where you want @theglibc{} installed. This defaults to @file{/usr/local}, but the normal setting to install as the standard system library is -@samp{--prefix=/usr} for GNU/Linux systems and @samp{--prefix=} (an -empty prefix) for GNU/Hurd systems. +@samp{--prefix=/usr} for @gnulinuxsystems{} and @samp{--prefix=} (an +empty prefix) for @gnuhurdsystems{}. It may also be useful to set the @var{CC} and @var{CFLAGS} variables in the environment when running @code{configure}. @var{CC} selects the C @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ relative to the build directory (that is, the current working directory). For example, @samp{--enable-add-ons=nptl,../glibc-libidn-@var{version}}. @item --enable-kernel=@var{version} -This option is currently only useful on GNU/Linux systems. The +This option is currently only useful on @gnulinuxsystems{}. The @var{version} parameter should have the form X.Y.Z and describes the smallest version of the Linux kernel the generated library is expected to support. The higher the @var{version} number is, the less @@ -386,10 +386,10 @@ You may also need these packages if you upgrade your source tree using patches, although we try to avoid this. @node Linux -@appendixsec Specific advice for GNU/Linux systems +@appendixsec Specific advice for @gnulinuxsystems{} @cindex kernel header files -If you are installing @theglibc{} on a GNU/Linux system, you need to have +If you are installing @theglibc{} on @gnulinuxsystems{}, you need to have the header files from a 2.6.19.1 or newer kernel around for reference. These headers must be installed using @samp{make headers_install}; the headers present in the kernel source directory are not suitable for @@ -421,7 +421,8 @@ are not required if not compiling programs using those interfaces. You do not need to copy kernel headers if you did not specify an alternate kernel header source using @samp{--with-headers}. -GNU/Linux expects some components of the @glibcadj{} installation to be in +The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for @gnulinuxsystems{} expects some +components of the @glibcadj{} installation to be in @file{/lib} and some in @file{/usr/lib}. This is handled automatically if you configure @theglibc{} with @samp{--prefix=/usr}. If you set some other prefix or allow it to default to @file{/usr/local}, then all the |