Hello, Daniel G. wrote: > I'm trying to recompile many gnu applications in my own customized operating > system. I'm using glibc-2.28 with gcc-8.2.0 and linux kernel 4.18.16. > > As I was told in this same list, I'm using the git repositories to recreate > the source packages. It is quite a big job, I've already prepared > findutils, m4, bison... and sometimes it requires additional work to modify > configure.ac > files etc. > > I would like to have more information about this gnulib issue (or some > references to > read) to decide whether investing more time moving to git sources or return to > glibc-2.17 and wait for a general fix.
You could maybe reuse the work other people have done? I mean, other distros have the same problem. Pick a distro with glibc-2.28 [1] and look at the patches they have prepared. For example, Fedora 29 has a fix for findutils [2]. Bruno [1] https://repology.org/metapackage/glibc/versions [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/findutils/c/048e4fadab5dcf0d2b709f27563f2b6179c22ea7?branch=master
