[Clfs-dev] issues with current svn x86_64 pure 64

[Joe Ciccone]

Martin Ward wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:52:05PM -0500, Joe Ciccone wrote:
>>  
>>>> i'm going from memory here, yep otherwise nothing else would have
>>>> built correctly, i'll have another look later in the week, i used make
>>>> perl utilities ext/Errno/pm_to_blib to get errno which is needed for
>>>> the coreutils testsuite
>>>>       
>>> Actually, this is really one of the first things you're building with
>>> that compiler (temp-system). The entire chapter 6 (temp-system)
>>> build is
>>> built using the cross-compiler built in chapter 5 (cross-tools).
>>>     
>>  In this context,  I read "otherwise nothing else would have built
>> correctly" as referring to the final system.  And if Martin had not
>> already replied, I would have said the same as he did here.
>>
>>  I haven't run the system yet, but sanity checks during the build,
>> and ldd on random files, all look good.  The problem is purely
>> within the temporary perl.  Now that I've built the final system, I
>> can no longer replicate the problem.
>>
>> ĸen
>>   
> Correct, running on a full kde-3.5.10 desktop built from CLFS SVN
> 11-11-08 (or round about), i still think the problem is with the temp
> perl (chap 10.4).
>
> Looking at Errno_pm.PL in perl-5.10.0/ext/Errno
> it tries to find the location of errno.h so it then can extract the
> system specific error numbers, however our errno.h is still sitting in
> tools/include, we haven't put the anything in usr/include yet
> the test is around line 148/150
>> # Some Linuxes have weird errno.hs which generate
>>     # no #file or #line directives
>>     my $linux_errno_h = -e '/usr/include/errno.h' ?
>>         '/usr/include/errno.h' : '/usr/local/include/errno.h';
>>     $file{$linux_errno_h} = 1;
> then continues
>
> when you've built the final system errno.h is in it's usual
> place(/usr/include) and the test passes
>
I can confirm these lines in the Makefile, Now what's making me really
really curious is why myself and dozens of other people havn't seen this
before now. I havn't started a new build yet but I will mark this email
so I dont forget to check it next time.