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From: Floyd Anderson <f.a@31c0.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 22:07:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180202210721.ap3muufgcsencbuj@31c0.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DF3SHGAH.47R62WNE.SI3UD5O4@QROI4MGY.QI3X4LNZ.GRLGGJYB>

Hi Helmut,

On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:34:23 +0100
Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@skynet.be> wrote:
>With glibc-2.27 installed I cannot compile anything, since most 
>packages try to include <gnu/stubs-32.h>
>which doesn't exit any more.
>And downgrading glibc using a binary package doesn't work.
>
>It looks like I have to restore my system from a recent backup,
>very annoying!

Restoring your backup is probably faster but I want to point out the 
possibility of an intermediate build chroot [1] to get back a working 
toolchain. This helped me in the past to solve troubles with glibc and 
when I didn’t knew about buildpkg/buildsyspkg for FEATURES variable. 


Link:
  - [1] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_Gentoo#Updating_old_systems>


Good luck, bleeding edge(r) and thank you for the warning.


-- 
Regards,
floyd



  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-02 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-02 17:34 [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system Helmut Jarausch
2018-02-02 21:07 ` Floyd Anderson [this message]
     [not found] ` <5x7d1x01i1kktTk01x7eRl>
2018-02-03  5:42   ` John Campbell
2018-02-03  5:54     ` Dale
2018-02-03  8:23       ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-03 14:08         ` Dale
2018-02-04 18:01           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-04 18:23             ` Dale
2018-02-03  9:50       ` [gentoo-user] " Helmut Jarausch
2018-02-03 15:11         ` Marc Joliet
2018-02-03 17:34           ` Helmut Jarausch
2018-02-03 17:56             ` Marc Joliet
2018-02-03 23:21             ` Bill Kenworthy
2018-02-04 11:52               ` Helmut Jarausch
2018-02-04  8:39             ` Neil Bothwick

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