Hi Peter,

Peter Simons <[email protected]> writes:

>  >> Does anyone have a suggestion how to remedy that problem?
>  >
>  > Perhaps you could make the patch conditional on whether ‘stdenv’
>  > contains a ‘glibc’ attribute?
>
> That won't help, unfortunately, because the glibc 2.5 systems have a
> stdenv.glibc attribute, too. It's just that it's version 2.5.

Oh, right, I thought you were using ‘stdenvNative’.

> Of course, it's possible to use some other suitable mechanism to
> determine whether that bogus scandir patch can be applied or not, but I
> guess my favorite solution would be for someone to fix that patch so
> that it just doesn't break checkinstall. Then we can apply it
> unconditionally. An obvious candidate for that job might be the person
> who committed that patch in the first place, maybe? *cough* *cough*.

:-)

Ludo’.

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