Building glibc from CVS on x86 Ubuntu Hardy

[Ryan Arnold]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2008, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
>  Thanks, that works fine. Where should I have discovered that this is what I
> needed to do? As far as I could tell from INSTALL, I should have been able
> to use the simple line that I used. Or is this a problem with building on
> Ubuntu?

In general the developers don't like to encourage the
building/installing of GLIBC.  Every build of glibc is specially tuned
for the target therefore a simple bare 'configure' isn't appropriate.

> > Try it without the -fno-stack-protector too to see if that works.

>  That doesn't work. Why not? I see it says "Checking for -fstack-protector"
> while configuring. Is it because the Ubuntu compiler switches this on by
> default and the libc configure doesn't know to turn it off?

-fno-stack-protector used to be required on my Ubuntu machine.  This
may not be the case any longer with a newer compiler.

Regards,
Ryan