Hello, everybody
Sorry if I'm not going to be _very_ specific but it's just too darn late
. :P
Well, after fiddling around with strace and the such I reached to the
conclusion that the locale implementation in the glibc 2.1 I got with my
slackware7.0 is broken. So, I decided to compile glibc 2.2 since I've read
here that it works with code compiled for glibc2.1 (read that here, i
believe). After reading the FAQ and INSTALL I understood that I have to
upgrade binutils, gcc and gnu make in order for the compilation to
work.
Well, I hit the road and got all of those. compiled GCC 2.95.3 right over
the previous 2.92.something and so did with gmake and ld .. Note that I
had to specify --prefix=/usr in each of those to overwrite the previous
versions since I wanted to save myself the trouble of symlinking and
reconfiguring stuff I didn't even know existed to use the new
compilations.
Now, everything compiled just great, and I recompiled that 2.4.3 kernel I
got today as well to check that everything works, and even got a kernel
smaller by 50KB or so .. they obviously did some optimization with gcc :P
Anyway .. now I went to compile that monstrous glibc .. I told the
configure script to install in /usr and overwrite previous stuff, include
the "locale" and "linuxthreads" addons and with kernel 2.4.3 in mind also
giving it the include dir of the kernel. The script was happy with most of
it besides some unknown app named 'mig' it was looking for - and I wasn't
aware of its existance up to that point. I asked people around EFNet and
did a quick scan through my system and through freshmeat to find nothing
of slight resemblance to what the configure script was looking for. Does
any of you?
But that's not the major issue, since configure "swallowed" its abscense
and continued .. with giving me some warning about the locale addon being
unconfigured even though the README insists I have to configure it after
installation ..
The compilation went fine for a while until the following error appeared:
) > /tmp/glibc/build/sysd-versionsT
no versions defined for ld.so
cpp: output pipe has been closed
make[1]: *** [/tmp/glibc/build/sysd-versions] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/glibc/glibc-2.2.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2
since I remembered I just compiled binutils I went to check the docs
there. NO DOCS. hmpf! I tried running the glibc configure script again and
exlicitly specifiyng the binutils (ld) prefix, but it didn't work. since I
have only the slightest idea about ld.so and ld\binutils in general (care
to explain it to me?) there wasn't much I could do .. the ld.so manpage
made things clearer to some extent .. and i did found ld.so and ld-linux
in /lib:
76364 Sep 10 1999 ld-2.1.2.so
17 Mar 18 19:52 ld-linux.so.1 ->ld-linux.so.1.9.9
79508 Jun 26 1999 ld-linux.so.1.9.9
11 Mar 18 19:52 ld-linux.so.2 ->ld-2.1.2.so
104060 Jun 26 1999 ld.so
but couldn't find and occurances of it in /usr/lib, (I installed binutils
with the /usr prefix).
I am totally stuck, and as the average linux\unix guru would probably
notice by now my approach is totally intuitive since my knowledge is near
to nil in whatever I was attempted to do. Would anyone bother and generate
a lenghty reply which would be both informative , constructive and help me
actually COMPILE the goddamn library? :P
Thankyou!
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