Re: Bug#27334: libc resolver problem solved (critical bug)
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> Could you please send this message to debian-devel too ? There are lots of
> smart people there, smarter than me :)
Sure!
>
> On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > >
> > > > How did you decide that the library was compiled with egcs? I don't have
> > > > egcs installed, and, to the best of my knowledge, this release was
> > > > compiled using gcc 2.7.2.3.
> > >
> > > 2.0.7u-5 downloaded from ftp.de.debian.org:
> > >
> > > gorgo@lovi:~$ strings /lib/libc.so.6 | grep Compiled
> > > Compiled by GNU CC version egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release).
> > > Compiled on a Linux 2.0.33 system on 1998/11/09.
> >
> > Well, I found the problem. While dpkg reported gcc installed and egcs not
> > installed, there was a copy of gcc in /usr/local/bin that came from some
> > experimental compilations of egcs. Because of my path, configure found
> > and used this one ;-(
> >
> > Thanks for the example of how to use the strings command. I will add this
> > test to my pre-release testing for glibc so such surprises will not bite
> > me in the future. Thanks!
> >
> > >
> > > 2.0.7u-5 compiled from sources by me:
> > >
> > > gorgo@mlf:~$ strings /lib/libc.so.6 | grep Compiled
> > > Compiled by GNU CC version 2.7.2.3.
> > > Compiled on a Linux 2.0.33 system on 1998/11/16.
> > >
> >
> > This brings up a problem that I am worrying about. The glibc development
> > team (upstream) are using egcs to do development of glibc. 2.1 will not be
> > compilable without some version of egcs. This little example of the
> > problems that arrise when using egcs simply compounds my confusion.
> >
> > 2.7.2.3 seems to have compatibility problems with egcs versions, yet we
> > are going to be left with no choice but to go to egcs for 2.1 so these
> > issues will come up again.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dwarf
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