Please read this before reporting a bug:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bug_reporting_guidelines
Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in the AUR. Use the 'flag out of date' link on the package page, or the Mailing List.
REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bug_reporting_guidelines
Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in the AUR. Use the 'flag out of date' link on the package page, or the Mailing List.
REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!
FS#5306 - glibc lacks features because kernel-headers are too old.
Attached to Project:
Arch Linux
Opened by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Monday, 28 August 2006, 16:44 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 28 August 2006, 16:46 GMT
Opened by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Monday, 28 August 2006, 16:44 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 28 August 2006, 16:46 GMT
|
DetailsArch's glibc package lacks some system calls. I discovered that unshare (whatever that does) and inotify_* are not implemented. This results in compiler messages like this:
[thomas@architect inotify_test]$ gcc -Wall -o test test.c /tmp/ccpa1EsA.o: In function `main': test.c:(.text+0x61): warning: warning: inotify_add_watch is not implemented and will always fail test.c:(.text+0x12): warning: warning: inotify_init is not implemented and will always fail test.c:(.text+0xa7): warning: warning: inotify_rm_watch is not implemented and will always fail and errors like this: [thomas@architect inotify_test]$ ./test inotify_init(): Function not implemented The problem is that kernel-headers is too old and lacks some system calls that are present in recent kernels. I attached a patch that applies to kernel-headers (apply this patch with -Np1, not -Np0 like the others) and adds all system calls that are have been added since 2.6.12, extracted from the 2.6.17 kernel source. If you rebuild the kernel-headers package with this patch and then rebuild the glibc package, the missing system calls are working. 
2.6.17-syscalls.patch
(1.6 KiB)
|
This task depends upon
Closed by Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 16:42 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: Updated to 2.6.18 kernelheaders. Will move it into current when kernel 2.6.18 moves also.
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 16:42 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: Updated to 2.6.18 kernelheaders. Will move it into current when kernel 2.6.18 moves also.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) -
Monday, 28 August 2006, 17:37 GMT
I won't add these, since kernel 2.6.18 is around the corner, which provides a target in the Makefiles to install sanitized userspace headers. Once kernel 2.6.18 is final, I'll use these headers as kernel-headers and rebuild our toolchain against it (binutils is outdated too and I guess gcc could use some new snapshot from the 4.1 branch too).
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) -
Monday, 28 August 2006, 18:00 GMT
I heard about that target, I'm glad it made its way into vanilla now. Thanks for your effort, I am happy that we will see the updated toolchain soon.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) -
Monday, 28 August 2006, 22:36 GMT
Just FYI, I just compiled a glibc package with the sanitized headers from 2.6.18-rc5 (make headers_install) and it looks fine right now, I only installed it in a test chroot though. At least the build worked without problems.