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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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