[Mageia-dev] An update broke checkinstall build - help?

[Pascal Terjan]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Johnny A. Solbu <cooker at solbu.net> wrote:
> I have problems figuring out how to fix checkinstall.
> A recent update on my cauldron system, broke building of «checkinstall», and I don't know how to fix it.
> I've tested an opensuse package, and it builds. and I can't figure out which opensuse patch fixes it.
>
> I'm temptet to just dropp it. It's not in mga1 or 2, and it seems to be abandoned upstream. last version was released in 2008.

The code contains tests like :

#if (GLIBC_MINOR <= 4)

And their create-localdecls script will define it for each known
version (from 0 to 7) or default to 1. Because 17 is not between 0 and
7 and 1 <= 4 it is using the readlink prototype of a very old glibc...

This patch seems to fix it
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=installwatch-glibc_minor.patch&package=checkinstall&project=openSUSE%3AFactory
but I didn't try to build with it