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Re: ["Carlos Wijders" <computec@sr.net>] libc/968: 'make check' fails with glibc-2.1


>>>>> Andreas Schwab writes:

AS> Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> writes:
AS> |> Therefore we shouldn't use $(native-compile) for isomac (and neither
AS> |> for posix/annexc).

AS> This is wrong.  Both are designed to be run on the *host*, not the target.
AS> That means that they can even run when cross-compiling.  The sources of
AS> the programs are independent of the target environment.  They only run the
AS> target compiler as a child.

The problem is not running those binaries but compiling them!  

The glibc2 FAQ advises to move /usr/include away when upgrading from
libc5 to glibc2 - and if you do so, make check will fail since those
two binaries can't be *compiled*.  If they could be compiled, there
wouldn't be a problem.

Andreas
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