Re: [Gcl-devel] cvs build on linux aborts

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  OK we certainly need to track this one down.  In sum, the
issue seems to be:

        When compiled on libc2.2.4 Linux system, gcl will not run on
        any Linux system.
        When compiled on <= libc2.1.x Linux system, gcl will run on
        *any* Linux system.

Please correct the above if it is in error, or confirm that this is
the case if you haven't yet.

1) Robert -- do you have ssh access to this box?
2) Both -- can you please compile with -g only (alter 386-linux.defs
   as necessary), run under the debugger, find out if this is a
   segfault, and if so where?
3) Vadim -- if memory serves, you tried to link statically, and this
   did not work.  Correct?

I do know of one explicit glibc issue that Dr. Schelter resolved for me
back in 5/2000.  He documented this in the changelog, and it enabled
dynamic linking against libc.  It was a change to rsym_elf to strip
the @GLIB off of symbols so that linking happened correctly.  I had
thought that maybe the new libc had a different labelling system, but
them static linking would work.  Please confirm that it does not work.

4) Robert, could you post the build output?

In the meantime, I have one old box which I think I can spare to
upgrade to Debian testing, with the new libc.  It is slow, but perhaps
it will serve as another debugging platform for this.

Take care,

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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