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

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
+