Puzzling glibc-build question...
 

I have encountered a build-problem in glibc that is quite puzzling and am discussing it in this forum over here.

Any ideas from the LFSers?

Re: Puzzling glibc-build question...
 

Try append "--disable-nls" to configure?

To follow-up this problem ...

:cry: ... after a failed attempt to install glibc, which stopped more or less halfway in the middle, the system was basically "borked." :rolleyes: There was no getting out of this one.

So what I eventually did was to boot from the LiveCD, redo the compile, copy the files, chroot to the old root, and run ldconfig. Oh yes, and a bunch of other old stuff had to be replaced, too. :pengie:

And so it seems that gcc is highly dependent upon glibc and if one is broken the other is borked.

In retrospect, what I should have done is to put the new library into a subdirectory of /lib, add that entry to /etc/ld.so.conf, and thereby built myself a more-elegant way to back out of the situation, i.e. by removing the entry, nuking the directory and re-running ldconfig. But I didn't, and created quite a splatter.