Fernando and I have been having a discussion about some errors that have come up on the i686. The initial indications were a seg fault when running javac. Even doing a simple 'javac -version' was demonstrating the problem.
Upon doing some research, we found that a change upstream in glibc was causing it. It really is not 100% clear if it is fundamentally a glibc or a gcc problem, but a relatively simple fix appears to correct the problem. The problem was involved with the __strstr_sse42 function in glibc and reports showed crashes with the plasma desktop, kdm, glxgears, among others. http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00257.html In the glibc build procedures, a simple sed to the glibc code seems to fix the problem: sed -i -e 's/static __m128i/inline &/' sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strstr.c I am proposing that we add this to both Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 of LFS. I'm not sure if we need to do an -rc2 or not. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
