Re: appchk/libc functions

[Stuart Anderson <anderson@metrolink.com>]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> On the current LSB spec, the rexec() call is sorted under 
> "Regular expressions". But rexec() is a (I think BSD) function
> for remote execution and used by the rexec command. This should
> be fixed.

I would propose that the function be removed entirely.

> And I have some curious error messages from appchk:
> 
> I get for all applications:
> - section .sbss is not in the LSB

When did .sbss get added? What does it do? It's not documented anywhere.


> Then I sometimes get the message that a Symbol has version number
> GLIBC_2.2, but GLIBC_2.1 is expected (for example for __xstat64).

This is an interesting result. Is this the only symbol the gives this message?
 
> I often also get the message, that symbol GLIBC_2.0 was found,
> but .bss was expecting.

I think I fixed that last week. Do you have the latest version of the lsbdev
package?

                                Stuart

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