Re: libc6 info?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 09:38:35PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
>  I'm sorry about writing to you directly, I couldn't find the mailing
>  list address (yes, I know it's on the website, gimme a network
>  connection and I'll look at it :-).  You might want to include this
>  info in the README.Debian file.
> 
>  It used to be that you could get some configuration info for the C
>  library by executing the file, something like this:
> 
>     ...
>     Compiled by GNU CC version 3.2.
>     Compiled on a Linux 2.4.19 system on 2002-09-10.
>     Available extensions:
>             GNU libio by Per Bothner
>             crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
>             Berkeley DB glibc 2.1 compat library by Thorsten Kukuk
>             linuxthreads-0.9 by Xavier Leroy
>     ...
> 
>  but executing the file now says something like:
> 
> Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1175: dl_main: Assertion `_rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_prev->l_next == _rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_next' failed!
> 
>  so I guess the linker script was changed...
> 
>  Is there another way to get that info?

It's an already reported bug.  I have a patch for it pending upstream;
I will probably throw it in the Debian package at some point.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer