Hi, I'd thought I'd let you all know that the glibc package hasn't been building on the alpha platform for some time now. The latest version I got compiling was 2.1.3-17mdk. The problem looks as follows: Building the package exits with the following error message: running configure fragment for ../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux running configure fragment for ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha checking installed Linux kernel header files... TOO OLD! configure: error: GNU libc requires kernel header files from Linux 2.1.100 or later to be installed before configuring. The kernel header files are found usually in /usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux; make sure these directories use files from Linux 2.1.100 or later. This check uses <linux/version.h>, so make sure that file was built correctly when installing the kernel header files. To use kernel headers not from /usr/include/linux, use the configure option --with-headers. Bad exit status from /users/cooker/tmp/rpm-tmp.25062 (%build) Full buildoutput is available at: http://d10179.dtk.chello.nl/build/cooker/alpha/problem/glibc-2.2-4mdk.src.rpm.txt I've rebuilt the current rawhide (redhat) glibc package, and it went fine (except for the fact that they use gzip to compress man pages, resulting in a few "file not found"'s). The problem lies in the fact that mandrake calls: BuildFlags="-march=%{_target_cpu} -D__USE_STRING_INLINES -fstrict-aliasing -mcpu=%{_target_cpu} -freorder-blocks -DNDEBUG=1" the -march=%{_target_cpu} and -mcpu=%{_target_cpu} cause this error. Leaving them away lets the package build normally. Could glibc be updated so it will build again on the alpha? Attached is a suggestion on how this can be done. http://d10179.dtk.chello.nl/build/fixes/cooker/glibc-2.2-5mdk.src.rpm http://d10179.dtk.chello.nl/build/fixes/cooker/glibc.spec http://d10179.dtk.chello.nl/build/fixes/cooker/glibc.spec.diff http://d10179.dtk.chello.nl/build/fixes/cooker/glibc.spec.orig Thanks!! Stefan
--- glibc.spec.orig Sat Nov 18 14:43:21 2000 +++ glibc.spec Sun Nov 19 08:06:56 2000 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ %define version 2.2 -%define release 4mdk +%define release 5mdk %define serial 6 %define url ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/glibc/releases/ @@ -147,7 +147,11 @@ mkdir build-%{_target_cpu}-linux ; cd build-%{_target_cpu}-linux %ifnarch ppc +%ifarch alpha +BuildFlags="-D__USE_STRING_INLINES -fstrict-aliasing -freorder-blocks -DNDEBUG=1" +%else BuildFlags="-march=%{_target_cpu} -D__USE_STRING_INLINES -fstrict-aliasing -mcpu=%{_target_cpu} -freorder-blocks -DNDEBUG=1" +%endif CC=gcc CFLAGS="$BuildFlags -g -O3" ../configure --prefix=%{_prefix} \ --enable-add-ons=yes --without-cvs $EnableKernel \ @@ -417,6 +421,9 @@ /usr/sbin/nscd_nischeck %changelog +* Sun Nov 19 2000 Stefan van der Eijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.2-5mdk +- added ifarch alpha for modified BuildFlags for alpha + * Thu Nov 16 2000 Frederic Lepied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.2-4mdk - don't strip ld-2.2.so - use sash in %%pre because bash needs the libc...
