locale problem with make check

["Troy" <tjk at tksoft dot com>]

I am trying to build glibc-2.2.4 and "make check" fails
with an error from msgfmt. I searched the archives, and 
found some people with the same error, but no solution
to the problem.

The error says: 

msgfmt: ../iconv/skeleton.c:302: gconv: Assertion `outbufstart == ((void *)0)' failed.
make[2]: *** [/usr/local/src/glibc-2.2.4-build/intl/tst-gettext.out] Error 134

The line in skeleton.c says:

if (__builtin_expect (do_flush, 0)) {
      /* This should never happen during error handling.  */
      assert (outbufstart == NULL);
      status = __GCONV_OK;



The error is generated by ../glibc-2.2.4/intl/tst-gettext.sh
on the line which runs the following command:
msgfmt -o ${objpfx}domaindir/existing-locale/LC_MESSAGES/existing-domain.mo \
       ../po/de.po

Which translates to:
msgfmt -o /usr/local/src/glibc-2.2.4-build/intl/domaindir/existing-locale/LC_MESSAGES/existing-domain.mo 
	../po/de.po


I ran the above msgfmt call under strace and found out that the skeleton.c file gets involved
because msgfmt loads 
/usr/local/src/glibc-2.2.4-build/iconvdata/ISO8859-1.so

The assert() error is generated immediately after loading ISO8859-1.so

It takes several hours to run make and make check. This is why I haven't
tested every possible configuration option. E.g. I am not sure how the 2.4
kernel or i386 options impact the gettext functions. I chose to use 2.4. because 
that's the latest kernel, and one I need. There was no reference to using a 
2.4. kernel in the docs, so this has been guesswork. I would like to use the same 
clib on other machines, which is why I used the i386 and kernel 2.2.10 options.


My environment is as follows:

Mobile Pentium MMX 266 (i586 unknown)
Linux kernel 2.4.9
glibc 2.1.1
gcc 2.95.3
GNU Make 3.79.1
msgfmt (GNU gettext) 0.10.40


glibc-2.2.4 attempted as follows:

Sources: /usr/local/src/glibc-2.2.4/
Build:   /usr/local/src/glibc-2.2.4-build/

The only package added was glibc-linuxthreads-2.2.4.

CFLAGS=-mcpu=i386 ../glibc-2.2.4/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-add-ons --enable-kernel=2.2.10 
--host=i386-pc-linux-gnu  --with-headers=/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/include


Running make failed at first. I needed to apply the following fixes to get
it to work:

1. compile died with the following error:
   spinlock.c:107: inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm'
   __asm __volatile ("" : "=m" (lock->__status) : "0" (lock->__status));
   The following line, instead of the one above fixes the problem (someone had
   posted the fix at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2001-06/msg00050.html.)
   __asm __volatile ("" : "+m" (lock->__status));
2. cpp/cpp wasn't found. Fixed with the following two commands:
   ln -s `which cpp` /lib/cpp
   ln -s `which cpp` /usr/ccs/lib/cpp/cpp

After applying these fixes, make succeeded.


Someone had the same skeleton.c problem on glibc mailing list,
and their problem was traced back to a missing locale link. So I did
the following:
ln -s /usr/local/share/locale /usr/lib/locale
(That's my directory for the locale files, and the one used by the current gettext 
distro as well.  /usr/share/locale doesn't exist.)


The fix didn't help in my case.


If there is something I have overlooked, I will gladly provide the 
info and investigate further. 


Thanks,


Troy