Re: build environment

[Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@samba.org>]

Johannes Poehlmann writes:
> > time (installation fixes (now fixed in CVS - thanks!) and note about
> > missing commands/utilities) I don't have much more to say.
> 
> Lets se when i find the time to add theses packages. 
> I will start with shadow, fileutils, sh-utils.

That would be good, I think these have most of the more common
commands used during installation.

> > Checking symbols in /lib/lsb/libc.so.6
> >   Didn't find fgetwc (unversioned) in libc.so.6
> >     fgetwc has version GLIBC_2.2, expecting unversioned
> What do you think of this kind of errors ? We did not change
> much in the glibc upstream sources.

I've seen similar reports on other distributions. I can think of a
couple of possibilities:

- The symbol versions of the libraries from the libc packages were
  taken from an early glibc 2.2 when these functions were not yet
  versioned.

- There was a bug in the generation of the symbol versions in the spec
  database.

Could you check the first release of glibc 2.2 to see if those symbols
were versioned? If so then its most likely a bug in the specification
and needs to be referred to the spec list to work out what to do.

> > database?  This is basically where I have started working on improving
> > the build/xdevel environment.
> I just took them form the LSB CVS tree. 
> 
> We should offer them the way other upstram sources are offered:
> In a tarball and with a versioned name.

Agreed.

Regards,

Chris.
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