Arttu V. <arttu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/22/10, cov...@ccs.covici.com <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > Hi. I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged --
> > amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however
> > after doing this at least one package had an undefined reference to
> > S_ISCHR. I tried to downgrade glibc, but apparently this is not
> > supported and I am a bit stumped as to how to fix this problem.
> >
> > Any ideas on this would be appreciated.
>
> Which package is failing? Please check if it is already reported, and
> if not then please report a new bug, and if possible make it block
> this tracker bug:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331665
>
> A wild guess out of the blue would be that the error could be simply a
> missing include of stat.h in the package's sources. But there might be
> other omissions as well, so please provide more info.
>
> I think that unless API/ABIs were changed then the older, already
> installed version should still work just fine, as then the missing
> includes would only affect compile-time situation.
>
OK, I will check on that -- I am thinking that for that package a
missing include will fix this, but I could shoot whoever broke this
without thinking at all. I wonder if the failure of php to compile
because my_compiler.h is missing has something to do with this also?
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