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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:23:03
Message-Id: 201008221522.55162.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 covici@××××××××××.com writes:
2
3 > Hi. I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged --
4 > amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however
5 > after doing this at least one package had an undefined reference to
6 > S_ISCHR. I tried to downgrade glibc, but apparently this is not
7 > supported and I am a bit stumped as to how to fix this problem.
8
9 Looks like a real bad problem, I'm glad I did not update yet.
10
11 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/08/18/compounded-issues-in-glibc-2-12 has
12 some explanation on this. I wonder how this glibx version did make it into
13 ~arch.
14
15 > Any ideas on this would be appreciated.
16
17 Don't know. Maybe wait a little and see if another new glibc fixes this,
18 or the packages having issues with the new glibc might get updated.
19
20 Wonko