I'm trying to setup a machine for development and I just can't get
glibc-2.2.3 to build on potato.
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In the past I've used debian-unstable for doing development, the
trouble is I find that, well, too unstable.
I considered using debian-testing but the stuff I'm working on
(network implementation layer for GCJ) generally means I have to look
at source code anyway so it's easier if I just build from source.
Or that's what I thought.
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Here's what I've done:
- installed a completly fresh potato ("development" task)
- updated autoconf, automake, libtool and binutils to the latest
versions (via distrib downloads)
- downloaded the glibc-2.2.3 distrib
- downloaded the linuxthreads distrib and set it up correctly
- downloaded and built the linux kernel 2.2.19 (but not installed)
- configured the glibc with:
--with-headers=<location-of-linux-headers>
--enable-add-ons
- built glibc
- run glibc's make check
Unfortunately "make check" fails saying:
"can't work out user name for id XXXX"
I can fix that by changing the NSS config slightly but that breaks
debian and anyway, "make check" simply fails a bit further on
compaining about some posix issue.
I presume that I'm missing a library so I added testing (where
glibc-2.2.3 is available) to my sources.list and did this:
apt-get -s install glibc-2.2.3
This reported no new packages (it did report new packages but I have
them all, I presume that there are some versioning issues).
Here's a list of some of the relevant installed packages:
g++ 2.95.2-13
gcc 2.95.2-13
libc6 2.1.3-18
libc6-dev 2.1.3-18
libdb2 2.4.14-2.7.7.1
libdb2-util 2.4.14-2.7.7.1
libgdbmg1 1.7.3-26.2
libident 0.22-2
liblockfile1 1.01
libltdl0 1.3.3-9.1
libltdl0-dev 1.3.3-9.1
libncurses4 4.2-9
libncurses5 5.0-6.0potato1
libncurses5-de 5.0-6.0potato1
libnet-telnet- 3.01-2
libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-13
libstdc++2.10- 2.95.2-13
libstdc++2.9-g 2.91.66-4
Please, please, please help. I just don't know what to do next.
Nic Ferrier
