Re: glibc-2.0.93 homebrew distribution tests

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>]

John Kennedy <jk@csuchico.edu> writes:

>   Ugh.  gdb on gcc?  How much fun can one person have.  (:

You mean the compiler dies?  Then simply upgrade to egcs 1.0.3a.

>   It is specific to glibc-2.0.93 at least.  A binary on the i586
> compiled with dynamically linked with 2.0.7pre3 works but, when copied
> into the chrooted 2.0.93 tree (and thus dynamically linked) and run
> there will fail.

BUt you can debug this using gdb.

>   It is going to take forever, even on a p6-300, but I'm rebuilding glibc
> 2.0.93 with CFLAGS=-g

I would recommend CFLAGS="-O -g".  gcc can handle this.

> and we'll see if I can track this problem into glibc.  Any other
> recommendations for tracking down a (possible) glibc problem, or at
> least eliminating glibc?

Not without further information.

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