glibc independent packages

Hi, Yesterday, I tried to setup a multiarch system with amd64 and the recently added architecture musl-linux-amd64 that uses the musl-libc instead of the GNU glibc. After setting up a working toolchain, it worked well building some packages for the ...

Message posted on the April 22nd, 2013 - 4:50 AM ET

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-libs/glibc: glibc-2.14.1-r2.ebuild glibc-2.12.2.ebuild glibc-9999.ebuild glibc-2.15.ebuild glibc-2.10.1-r1.ebuild glibc-2.14.1-r1.ebuild glibc-2.14.ebuild glibc-2.13-r2.ebuild ChangeLog g

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote: Mike Frysinger posted on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:00:52 -0500 as excerpted: On Wednesday 18 January 2012 21:42:14 Michael Weber wrote: Um, what happend to the policy to not ...

Message posted on the January 19th, 2012 - 9:00 AM ET

Bug#515831: lintian: package-depends-on-hardcoded-libc test should take into account glibc specific case

Package: lintian Version: 2.2.0 Severity: normal Running a recent lintian on glibc sources output (among others warning/errors): W: glibc source: package-depends-on-hardcoded-libc libc6-dev depends W: glibc source: ...

Message posted on the February 17th, 2009 - 3:40 PM ET

Bug#661117: apertium-retxt: glibc detected free(): invalid pointer

Package: apertium Version: 3.1.0-1.3 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/apertium-retxt There seems to be some sort of programming error with apertium causing glibc to detect invalid pointers (probably double free issues). For a one-line ...

Message posted on the February 24th, 2012 - 5:40 AM ET

[gentoo-dev] glibc: pt_chown setuid going away by default

tl;dr: make sure your /dev/pts is mounted correctly w/gid=5 or bad things will happen and it's (probably) all your fault when you run grantpt(), glibc attempts to set up your pty with correct ownership & permissions. it does so by executing a ...

Message posted on the April 10th, 2013 - 1:20 AM ET

glibc masked

I'm getting portage package masked errors. It looks like there's a new version of gcc unmasked (4.3.2) but is calling for a glibc which is masked. !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-libs/glibc-2.7-r2" have been masked. !!! One ...

Message posted on the April 1st, 2009 - 2:45 PM ET

glibc problem

When I start vlc on CentOS 5.4, it has always complained about outdated glibc, yet vlc has worked properly, allowing me to take snapshots of the video stream whenever desired. The newly updated version crashes after a snapshot is taken, although the ...

Message posted on the December 4th, 2009 - 1:35 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Ekopath compiler failing to build - something about glibc development files

Hi all, I've got the ekopath compiler installed on my machine and Portage wants to update it, but fails. Before I go to the trouble of filling out a full bug report, does anyone have any ideas as to the problem? I think it is in the 5th line, ...

Message posted on the January 13th, 2013 - 2:00 AM ET

Error compiling glibc: No rule to make target pthread_spin_trylock.o

I am trying to compile glibc for a stage 1 scratch building project. During compilation, I am getting an error relating to the Native Posix Thread Library as follows: gcc -B/tools/bin/ ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_spin_init.c -c ...

Message posted on the March 16th, 2009 - 6:08 PM ET

[PATCH] perf tools: Fix LIBNUMA build with glibc 2.12 and older.

The tokens MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE are not available with glibc 2.12 and older. Define these tokens if they are not already defined. This patch fixes these build errors with older versions of glibc. CC bench/numa.o bench/numa.c: In ...

Message posted on the March 6th, 2013 - 12:10 AM ET

GoogleEarth and CentOS glibc problem

I've installed GoogleEarth on CentOS 5.5 and am encountering some glibc deficiencies. Is there any way to install a local copy in $HOME of the requisite glibc, please, so that googleearth can use it? $ rpm -qa | grep glibc glibc-2.5-49 ...

Message posted on the June 11th, 2010 - 12:55 PM ET

glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

Some non-packaged software, e.g. the BOINC client, requires a relatively recent version of glibc. Wheezy, the latest non-unstable version of Debian, is stuck at 2.13, released 1.5 years ago, and since it is frozen there won't be a new glibc ...

Message posted on the September 9th, 2012 - 5:40 PM ET

[gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc gives strange error

Hi all, I'm trying to update my glibc for now 2 weeks or so and it doesn't matter what I'm doing, I run into a strange error. """ ...

Message posted on the November 8th, 2010 - 5:00 AM ET

Bug#572716: glibc-doc: please stop providing man pages for pthread_kill(3) et al

Package: glibc-doc Version: 2.10.2-6 Severity: normal This is basically an update to bug #506515. The Linux man-pages now also cover the following commands: pthread_kill_other_threads_np(3) pthread_kill(3) pthread_sigmask(3) sigwait(3) The ...

Message posted on the March 5th, 2010 - 4:40 PM ET