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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] How to make prefix using new glibc ?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:02:50
Message-Id: 20100818061037.GG7012@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] How to make prefix using new glibc ? by Galaxy
1 On 18-08-2010 13:01:01 +0800, Galaxy wrote:
2 > I ran qdepends on the main Gentoo tree.
3 > Since glibc is not a part of the prefix tree, of course it will not contains dependence on glibc there.
4 >
5 > $ ldd /usr/bin/gcc
6 > linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff4ab7e000)
7 > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc0e5e34000)
8 > /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc0e6190000)
9 >
10 > Since gcc do linked to libc,
11
12 (g)libc is not "just a library" in the sense that you can do without.
13 Besides that you're not looking at gcc here, but a wrapper around it,
14 virtually everything is linked to libc.
15
16 > and the version required is >2.8 from the main tree,
17 > and I did failed on emerge gcc and binutils at the link step under glibc-2.4.
18 > I come to the answer that without glibc-2.8, it cannot be done for gcc-4.4 .
19
20 We like to see bugs about those. We can't always easily fix it, but
21 still a bug would be nice.
22
23 > > Anyway, I'm going to gracefully bow out from this thread because it
24 > > doesn't make sense anymore. Try to build glibc, please report back when
25 > > successful.
26 >
27 > > Good luck,
28 > > -Jeremy
29
30 For the rest, I agree with Jeremy.
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34 Fabian Groffen
35 Gentoo on a different level