Re: After compiling glibc-2.10.1, make tests return errors.

[Richard Lemieux <rlemieu at cooptel dot qc dot ca>]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Saturday 25 July 2009 01:12:50 Richard Lemieux wrote:
> > I just compiled glibc-2.10.1 natively for an i686 Q6600 running
> > linux-2.6.29.5 and gcc-4.2.2.  I am at the point of making the tests.
> >
> > I configure as follows.  The straightforward configure leads to an error
> > later at compile time:
> >
> >    undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4
>
> this is expected behavior.  your toolchain defaulted to using i386 
> instructions which latest glibc will not work with.  you must configure your 
> toolchain and/or compiler flags to select a better target (such as i686).
> -mike

Thanks Mike,

Looking in config.make I see 'base-machine = i386' indeed. I still have to
find out where this comes from.  Otherwise, I think that I found
answers to my other question in 
<http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.5-rc1/chapter06/glibc.html>.

Thanks,

Richard