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Re: glibc-2.0.93 homebrew distribution tests
- To: drepper@cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: glibc-2.0.93 homebrew distribution tests
- From: John Kennedy <jk@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 15:50:20 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha@cygnus.com
[Ulrich Drepper]
>> Ugh. gdb on gcc? How much fun can one person have. (:
> You mean the compiler dies? Then simply upgrade to egcs 1.0.3a.
Compiler dies, but only under glibc-2.0.93 (under 2.0.7pre3 it's OK).
>> It is specific to glibc-2.0.93 at least. A binary on the i586
>> compiled with dynamically linked with 2.0.7pre3 works but, when copied
>> into the chrooted 2.0.93 tree (and thus dynamically linked) and run
>> there will fail.
>
> BUt you can debug this using gdb.
Yes. That is how I tracked it to strtok(). I want to chase it farther,
but I have to have debugging info left in glibc to do it.
>> It is going to take forever, even on a p6-300, but I'm rebuilding glibc
>> 2.0.93 with CFLAGS=-g
>
> I would recommend CFLAGS="-O -g". gcc can handle this.
Ok, I modified my build script. Eventually it'll do it. (:
>> and we'll see if I can track this problem into glibc. Any other
>> recommendations for tracking down a (possible) glibc problem, or at
>> least eliminating glibc?
>
> Not without further information.
We'll see what I have by tomorrow.
--- john