Re: glibc-2.14 build

[Mark Brown <ms_brown at sbcglobal dot net>]

Andy-
(Sorry for the delay, this wound up in my spam folder for some reason)

On 06/28/2011 04:21 PM, Andy Pintar wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I'd normally try and file a bug report etc, but there's a problem with
> glibc-2.14 that's been around for a long long time now that's
> aggravating many people, and the solutions/patches are in many places
> and applied to many distros, but for some reason the gnu 'official'
> sources are still broken.  The problem is errors of the form:
> ../nptl/sysdeps/pthread/pt-initfini.c:107: Error: junk at end of line,
> first unrecognized character is `1'
> 
> They occur because there's a __i686 #define but also a pp step that
> replaces it with 1.  So, the workaround is easy and has been documented
> in places such as:
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/development/glibc-2.13-gcc_fix-1.patch
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this is useful;
> -Andy.

The folks who work on glibc would encourage you to go ahead and file bug
reports on things you find, even if it looks like they are getting
attention in other places! I've copied the libc-alpha mailing list where
this can be discussed.

Thanks for your bringing this to our attention.


-- 
Mark Brown
Austin, Texas