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From: covici@××××××××××.com
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 13:48:24
Message-Id: 18221.1282484867@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly by "Arttu V."
1 Arttu V. <arttuv69@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On 8/22/10, covici@××××××××××.com <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 > > Hi. I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged --
5 > > amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however
6 > > after doing this at least one package had an undefined reference to
7 > > S_ISCHR. I tried to downgrade glibc, but apparently this is not
8 > > supported and I am a bit stumped as to how to fix this problem.
9 > >
10 > > Any ideas on this would be appreciated.
11 >
12 > Which package is failing? Please check if it is already reported, and
13 > if not then please report a new bug, and if possible make it block
14 > this tracker bug:
15 >
16 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331665
17 >
18 > A wild guess out of the blue would be that the error could be simply a
19 > missing include of stat.h in the package's sources. But there might be
20 > other omissions as well, so please provide more info.
21 >
22 > I think that unless API/ABIs were changed then the older, already
23 > installed version should still work just fine, as then the missing
24 > includes would only affect compile-time situation.
25 >
26 OK, I will check on that -- I am thinking that for that package a
27 missing include will fix this, but I could shoot whoever broke this
28 without thinking at all. I wonder if the failure of php to compile
29 because my_compiler.h is missing has something to do with this also?
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37 John Covici
38 covici@××××××××××.com