Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 03:46:00AM +0100, Jasmine Iwanek wrote: >> >> As I've stated several times now, we should *not* be pulling host >> headers into glibc. >> > You haven't explained why you didn't install the headers on youur > first build. In page 6.9 we say > > Install NIS and RPC related headers that are not installed by > default; these are required by several BLFS packages: > > cp -v ../glibc-2.16.0/sunrpc/rpc/*.h /usr/include/rpc > cp -v ../glibc-2.16.0/sunrpc/rpcsvc/*.h /usr/include/rpcsvc > cp -v ../glibc-2.16.0/nis/rpcsvc/*.h /usr/include/rpcsvc
I don't have the instructions memorized and completely forgot about that. Excellent spot. > Sure, we've only started this discussion because you didn't do > that, and some of the results have been interesting, but we _expect_ > those headers to get installed (like they were in past versions of > glibc). > > Do we need to use stronger language, or perhaps avoid the > explanation so that people who think "I don't care about XXX in > BLFS" will not omit them ? I'm curious. We _can_ reword that sentence: Install NIS and RPC related headers that are not installed by default; these are required to rebuild glibc and by several BLFS packages: -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
