Bug#193310: libc6: gconv breaks for statically-compiled binaries

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

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.

Regards,
-- gotom