Mark McCorkell wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:18:45 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > >> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 06:54:09PM +0100, Mark McCorkell wrote: >> >>> I'm in the process of doing a CLFS pure64 build as something to >>> experiment with. During the glibc 'make check' inside a chroot jail >>> > in > >>> section 10.7 I'm getting 14 test fails in the localedata section. The >>> only other fail is the expected annexc fail. >>> >>> Google returned a suggestion of running >>> >>> cp ../glibc-x.xx/iconvdata/gconv-modules iconvdata >>> >>> before doing 'make check' but there's no mention of this being needed >>> in the current book. I haven't tried this yet. >>> >>> >> I've seen those errors, probably since we upgraded glibc (but there >> was a vast amount of churn since my previous build, so the cause could >> be anywhere - at that time I didn't manage to get anything out of >> google). I've no idea what the fix is - please try copying >> gconv-modules and see if it fixes the failures. >> >> ĸen >> > > Copying gconv-modules to the build dir just before running 'make check' > eliminated all the locale test errors. My Linux knowledge isn't at the > stage yet where I can decipher enough of the build scripts for glibc to > figure out why this needed to be done (but trying was fun in a > headache-inducing way). Hopefully it's just an issue with the tests and > won't cause any problems to crop up with later compiles in the CLFS > build. > > One would assume that if this is required to properly build/test locales that the makefile with automatically cp or ln the file in question. I'll see if I can figure out why there's a problem. I noticed these tests failing on all archs for a long time. Never looked into it because the locales always appeared to be fine.
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