The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project's implementation of the C standard library. My environment required glibc (version 2.14) and it took a bit
of fiddling to get it to work, so hopefully this will save you some time.
0. Glibc Installation Dependencies
Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib, readelf
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, cp, install, ln, mknod, mv, mkdir, rm, touch
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Gzip: gzip
Make: make
Gawk: gawk
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: date, expr, hostname, pwd, uname
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo
Textutils: cat, cut, sort, tr
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib, readelf
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, cp, install, ln, mknod, mv, mkdir, rm, touch
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Gzip: gzip
Make: make
Gawk: gawk
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: date, expr, hostname, pwd, uname
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo
Textutils: cat, cut, sort, tr
1. Download installation package
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ for all versions.
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.14.tar.gz for version 2.14.
2. Compile and install
To avoid disturb current environment, compile and install this version separately by configuring prefix.
[root@localhost ~]# tar xvf glibc-2.14.tar.gz [root@localhost ~]# cd glibc-2.14 [root@localhost glibc-2.14]# mkdir build [root@localhost glibc-2.14]# cd ./build [root@localhost build]# ../configure --prefix=/opt/glibc-2.14 [root@localhost build]# make -j4 [root@localhost build]# make install
[root@localhost build]# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/glibc-2.14/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
3. To check glibc versions installed
root@localhost:~/intel64/runtime/glibc$ strings libc.so.6 | grep GLIBC
GLIBC_2.2.5
GLIBC_2.2.6
GLIBC_2.3
GLIBC_2.3.2
GLIBC_2.3.3
GLIBC_2.3.4
GLIBC_PRIVATE
root@localhost:~/intel64/runtime/glibc$ strings libc.so.6 | grep GLIBC
GLIBC_2.2.5
GLIBC_2.2.6
GLIBC_2.3
GLIBC_2.3.2
GLIBC_2.3.3
GLIBC_2.3.4
GLIBC_PRIVATE
4. Compiling errors
Error:
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/mnt/lfs/sourcenew/glibc-build/Versions.all',
needed by `/mnt/lfs/sourcenew/glibc-build/abi-versions.h'. Stop.
Solution:
sudo apt-get install gawk
sudo apt-get install texinfo
Error:
make[2]:
*** [/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/misc/syslog.o] Error 1
Solution:make clean
make -j2 CFLAGS="-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -O2 -fno-stack-protector" Error: /Downloads/glibc-2.14/build/elf/ldconfig: Can't open configuration file /opt/glibc-2.14/etc/ld.so.conf: No such file or directory
Solution::/opt/glibc-2.14/etc$ sudo sh -c "echo '/usr/local/lib' >> ld.so.conf"
:/opt/glibc-2.14/etc$ sudo sh -c "echo '/opt/lib' >> ld.so.conf"
