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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: Source Mage - Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] gettext errors - recompile glibc?
  • Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 06:43:06 -0800

>
> The glibc Makefiles are ok (you can test a manual configure <opts> &&
> make && make install if you want). The problem is that sorcery dispels
> glibc before make install is run. Sorcery tries to solve the problem
> by copying the libraries etc. to another place and setting
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly.
>
> This works fine until the new dynamic loader is installed, since it
> loads (because of LD_LIBRARY_PATH) the _old_ libraries.
>
> Some symbols in the glibc are versioned, and those symbols can not be
> resolved. However, since the library was loaded successfully the
> next libc in the library path is not used.
>
> This is what makes dynamic executables fail after the 2.3.1 update.
>
> BTW: Just a quick idea, but setting LD_PRELOAD to the old libc might
> solve the problem. I will test this when 2.4 is out ;)
>
im not going to argue with you on that, but ive tried moving the libraries
and had no success. Not to mention the makefile was doing an mv, then
an ln, to install the new dynamic loader instead of either an sln or an
ln -f to replace it.




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