Bug#193310: marked as done (libc6: gconv breaks for statically-compiled binaries)
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From: Joe Drew <drew@debian.org>
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Subject: libc6: gconv breaks for statically-compiled binaries
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Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.1-17
Severity: normal
When I compile a binary statically which uses iconv(), and then deploy
that binary on a glibc 2.2.5 machine, it fails:
albatross:/# /usr/local/bin/msgfmt -o de.gmo de.po
/usr/local/bin/msgfmt: iconv failure: Argument list too long
This, I believe, is because of some incompatible change in gconv. While
the statically-compiled binary includes gconv() from glibc 2.3.1, the
/usr/lib/gconv .so files are compiled against glibc 2.2.5.
This indicates to me that some backwards-incompatible change has
happened. This may or may not be desired behaviour; feel free to close
this bug if this operation is intentionally unsupported.
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From: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
To: Joe Drew <drew@debian.org>, 193310-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#193310: libc6: gconv breaks for statically-compiled binaries
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At Sat, 17 May 2003 02:32:13 +0900,
GOTO Masanori wrote:
>
> At Wed, 14 May 2003 20:06:48 -0400,
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:19:53AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> > > Package: libc6
> > > Version: 2.3.1-17
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > When I compile a binary statically which uses iconv(), and then deploy
> > > that binary on a glibc 2.2.5 machine, it fails:
> > >
> > > albatross:/# /usr/local/bin/msgfmt -o de.gmo de.po
> > > /usr/local/bin/msgfmt: iconv failure: Argument list too long
> > >
> > > This, I believe, is because of some incompatible change in gconv. While
> > > the statically-compiled binary includes gconv() from glibc 2.3.1, the
> > > /usr/lib/gconv .so files are compiled against glibc 2.2.5.
> > >
> > > This indicates to me that some backwards-incompatible change has
> > > happened. This may or may not be desired behaviour; feel free to close
> > > this bug if this operation is intentionally unsupported.
> >
> > I'll leave the bug in case anyone else has comments, but this is a
> > known issue - static binaries really just aren't portable between glibc
> > 2.2 and 2.3, for both this and NSS reasons. Sucks.
>
> Yup. It's currently "intentionally unsupported." I think it's ok to
> close it. ^unfortunately unwillingly intentionally unsupported
And I close it.
Regards,
-- gotom
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