rebuild issues against master glibc, bad interaction with gnulib (?)
Collin Funk
collin.funk1@gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 01:45:33 GMT 2026
"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> writes:
> Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2026, 18:17:04 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
>> >
>> > Are you building from tarballs?
>>
>> Yes, coreutils 9.9
>>
>> > It reminds me of the errors fixed by
>> > this Gnulib commit [1].
>> >
>> > I would expect coreutils to build fine from it's master branch in git.
>> > Can you check that, assuming that isn't where you saw these errors?
>>
>
> A manual build of git master coreutils succeeds and passes tests.
>
> That improves the situation marginally. However, given that people are
> supposed to copy/paste gnulib into their project sources and a ton
> of different old versions are floating around on the internet in
> package tarballs, we're still in for a huge amount of work...
You might be able to override the C standard to use -std=gnu17 or
something like that, so the bsearch (and others) are not defined.
Then remove that line once the next release for each package comes out.
Collin
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