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On 19 Mar 2004 at 12:10, <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Just out of curiosity I recompiled gcc against the binutils in the
> grimoire and it won't work, I just recompiled binutils 2.14 and am
> waiting for gcc to finish compiling.

I read this post, wondering if it was wishful thinking, or could glibc have 
been 
part of my installation nightmares. 

I'm still trying to get through my first successful install with the 0.9.2 
iso using 
the "Install from newer ISO" instructions. I was having troubles compiling 
glibc, due to a missing shared library(libintl.so.2), which we thought was 
due 
to me doing a copy of the kernel during the install vs. a compile. I compiled 
the kernel, but the library was still missing. Another list-member suggested 
I 
create a symlink to a different library. That appeared to fix that issue.

I updated sorcery and grimoire, recompiled binutils, gcc, gettext and glibc, 
then did the "sorcery rebuild"

Question: Why was binutils, gcc, gettext and glibc, linux recompiled as part 
of the "rebuild", since they had just been compiled? Does that make sense?

Things seemed to be going fine till I hit glibc in the rebuild. I believe it 
was 
the last item to be compiled, but spit out an error right near the end that 
jumped out at me:

/tmp/sorcery/cast/3277/casting.safe in line 1598: 4096 segmentation fault

Then sorcery notified me that: diffutils, simpleinit-msb, linux, glibc, wget 
and 
pcmcia_cs had compile errors, too. 

It also mentioned that the following still had to be cast, but showed no 
program names, which I thought was odd.

After that, any casts that I did, I tried wget and pcmcia_cs failed. 
Unfortunately, I did not note the messages.  

Even more unfortunate was that I rebooted. I guess the failed compile of 
simpleinit-msb, blew away inittab, since it could not be found. I rebooted 
from CD, tried to find a reasonable inittab to replace the missing one, but I 
guess it wasn't resonable enough, because although inittab was now found, 
init would just hang. So, I tried to recover, but unsuccessfully. :-)

So, I've started another install and I'm waiting while the kernel compiles....

Question: With this new thread on a possible "glibc" problem, could this 
have influenced my earlier problems? Should I even bother to continue this 
install, or wait until Jeremy's compile of gcc finishes and see how it works?
If a new glibc does help things, how would I get it in the context of working 
within the "Source Mage" infrastructure?

Thanks,
Tom