Gábor Boskovits writes:
> +) After bootstrapping a static glibc-2.2.5, I tried building a shared
> 2.2.5, 2.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.6, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6. When all failed, I
> invested a couple of days to patch 2.3.6...but that started to look
> like a gargantuan undertaking. Iow, I'm stuck here.
>
> Hello Jan, I'm currently on vacation, but I would be interested to
> have a look into this issue when I get home. Could you send me some
> details?
Thank you! First, enjoy your vacation!
I'll share some details here, but things are changing pretty fast; it
appears I'm unstuck.
Building glibc-2.3.6, I found many files to complain about missing
size_t, wchar_t, NULL, offsetof and some other stray missing types or
macros.
While it's usual to make some patches like a missing include, this
didn't feel OK.
Yesterday I got the advice onl #glibc to try build 2.16 or 2.17, so I
gave that a try. Same troubles...So i got down to inspecting the
include chain for `stddef.h' that failed to supply size_t...I found an
empty stddef.h from linux-libre-headers. There was no stddef.h from the
new libc OR from the old libc included. Although I did set -I flags to
the old libc, and for many files it worked.
That got me supsecting that I used glibc's --with-headers wrongly. I
had it point to the linux-libre-headers.
The (hopefully) major step forward now is that I added two packages:
mesboot-headers (early) and glibc-mesboot-headers (later), that combine
their libc header and the linux-libre-headers in one package; and point
--with-headers to that combination include.
With this change, all the missing types and declarations turned in to
duplicate defines :-) So I have been removing those again from the glibc
patches. Currently I'm finding that glibc-2.16.0 needs some more
linux/*.h headers that were stripped out of the bootstrap libc.
"a.out.h ; for 2.2.5"
"atalk.h" ; for 2.2.5
"errno.h"
"falloc.h"
"if_ether.h" ; for 2.2.5
"ioctl.h"
"kernel.h"
"limits.h"
"netlink.h" ; for 2.16.0
"param.h"
"prctl.h" ; for 2.16.0
"posix_types.h"
"rtnetlink.h" ; for 2.16.0
"socket.h"
"stddef.h"
"swab.h" ; for 2.2.5
"sysctl.h"
"sysinfo.h" ; for 2.2.5
"types.h"
"version.h" ; for 2.2.5
I'll keep you all informed here, thanks.
Greetings,
janneke
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