Re: new libc6

[Chris Tillman <tillman@azstarnet.com>]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:33:34AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> ome congratulations may be in order, i am not sure
> 
> i updated sid again this afternoon (around midnight GMT), and rebuilt
> the bootfloppies. it failed:
> 
> I: single locale mode forced for flavor '', no FB console support
> I: ld.so on this architecture is ld-linux.so.2
> E: expected to find /lib/libc-2.2.4.so; upgrade local libc to 2.2.4
> E: ./rootdisk.sh abort
> make[1]: *** [root.bin] Error 255
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/boot-floppies/woody/boot-floppies'
> make: *** [build] Error 2
> zsh: exit 2     make
> 
> due to the new libc6 (2.2.5-1). the congratulations that may be in order
> is the ``b-f no longer builds against sid'' of course, i may be totaly
> out to lunch on that one.
> 
> my question: are we supposed to build against libc-2.2.4 or -2.2.5?
> changelog indicates that -2.2.5 fixes the glob problem, so i guess that
> answers my question.
> 
> i'd fix the sources, but it is _way_ past my bedtime ATM (past midnight
> local time :)
> 
> -john

AFAIK, our goal is to build it against woody, not sid. There's no
reason to build against sid, boot-floppies dies with woody. It still
needs a few packages from unstable, that's taken into account with
make check.

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