Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Arttu V. <arttuv69@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/22/10, covici@ccs.covici.com <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > Hi.  I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged --
> > amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however
> > after doing this at least one package had an undefined reference to
> > S_ISCHR.   I tried to downgrade glibc, but apparently this is not
> > supported and I am a bit stumped as to how to fix this problem.
> >
> > Any ideas on this would be appreciated.
> 
> Which package is failing? Please check if it is already reported, and
> if not then please report a new bug, and if possible make it block
> this tracker bug:
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331665
> 
> A wild guess out of the blue would be that the error could be simply a
> missing include of stat.h in the package's sources. But there might be
> other omissions as well, so please provide more info.
> 
> I think that unless API/ABIs were changed then the older, already
> installed version should still work just fine, as then the missing
> includes would only affect compile-time situation.
> 
OK, I will check on that -- I am thinking that for that package a
missing include will fix this, but I could shoot whoever broke this
without thinking at all.  I wonder if the failure of php to compile
because my_compiler.h is missing has something to do with this also?


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