Re: Problem with libc6-pic

[Rene Mayrhofer <rene.mayrhofer@vianova.at>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:55:37PM +0100, Rene Mayrhofer wrote:
> > Ben Collins wrote:
> > > objdump --dynamic-syms bin/busybox | grep lxstat
> > >
> > > Send me the output from that please.
> > 080496cc      DF *UND*  00000137  GLIBC_2.0   __lxstat
> 
> Strange, busybox is showing it doesn't use lxstat64 (which is what I
> expected, but it is still strange :)
> 
> > Does this mean that it only needs glibc 2.0 ? There are only 2 symbols tagged
> > with glibc 2.1:
> > 0804979c      DF *UND*  0000016a  GLIBC_2.1   fclose
> > 0804993c      DF *UND*  0000009f  GLIBC_2.1   fopen
> 
> Ok, this is from libc.so.6:
> 
> 00000000000c800c g    DF .text  0000000000000100 (GLIBC_2.1)  __lxstat64
> 00000000000c7c34 g    DF .text  00000000000000fc  GLIBC_2.0   __lxstat
> 00000000000c800c g    DF .text  0000000000000100  GLIBC_2.2   __lxstat64
> 
> So the most recent lxstat64 is the GLIBC_2.2 one, which is the one that
> should get used if anything links with it. Now the question is, where does
> this come from? __lxstat64@GLIBC_2.1 is a weak symbol (only there for
> backward compatibility).
> 
> IMO, this might just be a bug in mkshlibs.sh
Great :-(
Does anybody besides Markus Brinkmann know the script well enough to debug it ?
I certainly do not. Does it work on your system ? Can you build a minimized
libc6 for busybox ?
Am I the only one experiencing this problem at the moment ?

best greets,
Rene