From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6D5F1382C5 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2018 21:07:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C25E7E0AD4; Fri, 2 Feb 2018 21:07:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.mailbox.org (mx1.mailbox.org [80.241.60.212]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48216E09D9 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2018 21:07:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp1.mailbox.org (smtp1.mailbox.org [80.241.60.240]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.mailbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8838442B35 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2018 22:07:24 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at heinlein-support.de Received: from smtp1.mailbox.org ([80.241.60.240]) by spamfilter03.heinlein-hosting.de (spamfilter03.heinlein-hosting.de [80.241.56.117]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id dex9eIbf4kcL for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2018 22:07:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 22:07:21 +0100 From: Floyd Anderson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system Message-ID: <20180202210721.ap3muufgcsencbuj@31c0.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: f9c26411-2d66-45be-959f-2d461f43a61d X-Archives-Hash: 44035262aa60aa3dcea5bb740ba24025 Hi Helmut, On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:34:23 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: >With glibc-2.27 installed I cannot compile anything, since most >packages try to include >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]  Good luck, bleeding edge(r) and thank you for the warning. -- Regards, floyd