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Re: (ARM EABI) ports-20061127 + kernel-headers-2.6.18 == broken system
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Steven Newbury <s_j_newbury at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- Cc: libc-ports at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:34:57 -0500
- Subject: Re: (ARM EABI) ports-20061127 + kernel-headers-2.6.18 == broken system
- References: <924004.45405.qm@web25007.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:19:48PM +0000, Steven Newbury wrote:
> I've just tried to upgrade my EABI/NPTL kernel headers to the new exported
> 2.6.18 headers and rebuilt Glibc. I am using a very recent Gentoo userspace
> with a few local changes.
>
> I had to update my ports snapshot to a more recent version (tried 20061120 and
> 20061127) from 20060925 (as included in Gentoo glibc-2.5) otherwise the
> required headers aren't available to build glibc. It built OK, but resulted in
> a non-working system. Specifically rm won't remove files, tar complains about
> no utime, cp also doesn't work when setting up udev. Most things do seem to be
> working OK, though.
Building glibc correctly is hard. I'd need much more information to
see what's gone wrong. You'd need to isolate some system call that was
being made incorrectly.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery