Bug#283054: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#283054: db4.3_4.3.21-1(hppa/unstable): FTBFS: configure dies at startup

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 11:26:04AM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> > > cd obj && LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 CC=gcc CFLAGS="-Wall -g -O2" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/tcl8.4"  \
> 
> It doesn't like the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 .  At least on paer (no
> chroot), if I change it to 2.4.4 or higher, it's able to run sh.
> In the unstable chroot, it needs to be 2.4.17 or higher.
> 
> What's broken here?

We're seeing the same problem on amd64.  Our problem is that we
only have a NPTL version of libc.  It'll break for us if
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL is lower than 2.6.0.

I don't know which version of the libraries are all availbale on
hppa.  Maybe it's a simular problem?

The LD_ASSUME_KERNEL is a trick to select a specific version of
the library because newer/different versions don't work.  I don't
see why this would be needed to build a package unless maybe some
test suite.  What is preventing it from having that problem at
runtime?

Anyway, see http://people.redhat.com/drepper/assumekernel.html
for more information about the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL variable.  We
don't seem to have anything in debian that does the same as that
eu-readelf.


Kurt