Re: coreutils 8.30 "bootstap"

[Gabor Z. Papp]

* Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden>:

| > 8.30/usr/bin/sort: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' 
not found (required by 8.30/usr/bin/sort)
| > 
| > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 is from the host glibc 2.24, and
| > 8.30/usr/bin/* are the target binaries, where the $ARCH is same
| > (x86_64 = x86_64), but glibc version differs (2.24 != 2.28).

| This sounds more like bootstrapping a system (a la Linux-from-scratch)
| than cross-compiling.

Yes, bootstrapping, but in both cases important not to call the
compiled binaries, since the host system may be not compatible with
the target (glibc mismatch or arch mismatch).

| TBH, I don't know too much about this, but I could imagine that one usually
| needs to point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the newer glibc at some point,
| right?

If you want execute the compiled binaries only.

| Back to the patch - does the attached work for you?

This version:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2018-10/msg00015.html