Re: glibc 2.1.3 packages

[Chris Lingard <chris@highludworth.freeserve.co.uk>]

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>
> Details would have been useful. I think this is not a special Hurd issue,
> but anyway. I believe gconv-modules is obsolete and included in libc0.2.
>

I was not running screen at the time, and it will nor repeat the message again but
it was lots of complaints about the shared libraries in /lib/gconv.  Sorry this is a
bit vague


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> Note that a full glibc build needs 640MB disk space and might crash a few times
> on the Hurd.
>

You forget to mention that it takes over 16 hours!  Only got one crash when I ran
out of disk space;  the Hurd is stable here,  have run your holefinder.c also and
cannot see that bug.

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> You don't need to build your own glibc to get debugging symbols. You can
> install the libc0.2-dbg package and get libraries with symbols in
> /lib/debug. Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib/debug will make sure that those
> are preferred over the stripped versions.
>

Thanks
Chris


>
> Marcus
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