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Re: glibc 2.2.3 configure fails with "The x86_64 is not supported"
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Eric Gunther <egunther at warwick dot net>
- Cc: libc-help at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:10:02 +0100
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.2.3 configure fails with "The x86_64 is not supported"
- References: <1547488709.3026.0.camel@warwick.net>
* Eric Gunther:
> So I downloaded glibc 2.2.3 and unpacked it. I entered the glibc-2.2.3
> directory. I made a directory (_build) and entered it. I typed :
> ../configure --enable-kernel=4.4.165-81-default --prefix=/usr
>
> and got:
>
> loading site script /usr/share/site/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking sysdep dirs... configure: error: The x86_64 is not supported.
>
>
> I am thinking that it isn't possible that x86_64 is not supported and
> that something is wrong with the 'name' of the computer or maybe I
> downloaded the wrong glibc-2.2.3. Also uname -r gives:
> 4.4.165-81-default
x86-64 support was added to glibc a little bit later, in glibc 2.2.5.
> another question:
>
> Is glibc 2.23 the same as glibc 2.2.3
No, glibc 2.2.3 is really, really old, from 2001.
Thanks,
Florian