> Where is the context of the message you are responding to?
>
> I may have had this problem but it would be nice to see what the other
> message you are replying to said.
>
> I can't do anything about the problem I had now because I opted to
> start over from scratch for more learning. It would be nice to be
> aware of a potential problem before I get to the point where it might
> happen again if I did have the same problem the last time.
>
> Thanks,
> Jack
Hi Jack -
The problem to which I was responding was one experienced when working through
LFS 7.2, section 6.9 (glibc). Trying to run the mandated tests via:
make -k check 2>&1 | tee glibc-check-log
grep Error glibc-check-log
was producing lots of errors like the below, for which the cause was not
immediately clear:
make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/nptl/tst-cancel24] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/nptl/tst-cancelx4] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/nptl/tst-cancelx5] Error 1 <etc>
Recapping the reason for this: if you follow the LFS 7.2 instructions,
but when you get to section 6.9 (glibc) either:
a) try to reuse the original glibc source you untarred for section 5.7, or
b) untar the source again but unnecessarily reapply the edit from 5.7.1
(sed -i 's/ -lgcc_s//' Makeconfig);
the tests for glibc will not have the -lgcc_s flag in their build lines.
This in turn makes the build for certain tests (e.g. nptl/tst-cancel24) fail,
ultimately causing the error above (it's actually a linker problem, but to
see that you have to look further up in the glibc-check-log file - the single
lines produced by the grep (as above) isn't particularly meaningful).
To assist anyone coming on this by google, to avoid this issue:
a) you need to rebuild glibc using a fresh source untar for section 6.9,
and of course a clean glibc-build directory;
b) you should *not repeat the sed -i 's/ -lgcc_s//' Makeconfig command from
section 5.7.1, when following through section 6.9; you have the necessary
library at this point, symlinked in /usr/lib/, per the instructions in 6.6.
Hope that helps.
Gavin
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