(1) In case nobody else got this, here is an error message which I got after
building glibc-2.0.109:
make -C iconvdata tests
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/lib/glibc/glibc-2.0.109/iconvdata'
cp gconv-modules
/usr/src/lib/glibc/glibc-2.0.109/i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1/iconvdata/gconv-modules
/bin/sh -e run-iconv-test.sh /usr/src/lib/glibc/glibc-2.0.109/i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
> /usr/src/lib/glibc/glibc-2.0.109/i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1/iconvdata/iconv-test.out
/usr/src/lib/glibc/glibc-2.0.109/i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1/iconv/iconv_prog: conversion
from `NF_Z_62-010_1973' to `UTF8' not supported
make[2]: ***
[/usr/src/lib/glibc/glibc-2.0.109/i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1/iconvdata/iconv-test.out]
Error 1
make[2]: Target `tests' not remade because of errors.
make[1]: *** [iconvdata/tests] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/lib/glibc/glibc-2.0.109/iconvdata'
(2) The error message which I reported with earlier versions of glibc
disappeared after I installed glibc-2.0.108. Running the tests on
glibc-2.0.108 then resulted in no error report. I suspect that the
problem was that the test was picking up an already installed lib
rather than the fresh-built one. This would explain why nobody else
was reporting the error. It seems that it is probably a bug in the
test routines.
(3) The appears to be a minor bug in the documentation. The FAQ
section 4.3 advises: "making a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/NAME
(NAME is the returned value from tzselect) from the file
/etc/localtime". With the glibc which gets built on my system (no
funny options), the location for the link (i.e. where the glibc
functions are actually looking) is /usr/etc/. This seems to
me to be the logical place to put it because the data is in the
/usr tree.
(4) I got no response to my previous message on glibc, so I still
don't know where to find an up-to-date 'readelf'. Help.
Cheers,
Bill Metzenthen
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