Re: ld.so / ld.so.1 in libio build of glibc

[Roland McGrath]

> Heya, I'm playing with my libio built glibc.  I'm trying to work in a
> chroot jail for testing (subhurd not really working, I think I just
> need a tutor this weekend on IRC to help me step through it).

Using a sub-hurd should be quite easy.  Please post the steps you tried
here and we can try to identify anything amiss.  The easiest way to be sure
you've got everything set up right is to do a fresh-partition Hurd install
that you can verify works when booted natively (a partition with just
libc+hurd should get you as far as bootstrapped and running shd).  Once
that works, there are very few things to do wrong using `boot' to run the
same thing as a sub-hurd.

> What I noticed is that my testing started to go alot smooter when I
> setup a /lib/ld.so -> /lib/ld.so.1 symlink.  This symlink exists on my
> regular Debian Hurd install.
> 
> Should this be required?  If yes, should glibc build it automatically
> as part of ``make install''?

It should be required, because /lib/ld.so is the PT_INTERP name put into
binaries by the i?86-gnu gcc specs.  That being the case, it probably ought
to be installed by libc's install.