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

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Sun Jan 6 23:15:53 CET 2013


On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Ah and it just broke now because we have a patch adding the values up
to 16... checkinstall-mdv-fix-glibc-detection.patch


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