[Clfs-dev] recompiling eglibc

[Jim Gifford]

Reimundo Heluani wrote:
> Hi there, I think I tracked down my problem with gnomevfs to a patch in
> eglibc ( http://www.eglibc.org/archives/issues/msg00056.html ). Indeed
> commenting file:file in default-modules-conf prevents the hangs in
> Firefox and f-spot.
>
> I think I'll have to recompile eglibc and I have never done that before.
> Currently I have the 2.10 version that is hosted on the svn server from
> the book. I presume that the branch version from eglibc.org is not much
> different so it shouldn't be much trouble recompiling. Is there any
> advice as to how to proceed? should I also recompile gcc and/or
> binutils? should I just install to $DESTDIR and then just cp -a to /?
>
> Also, I can't confirm that this will solve my issue, but I suspect that
> everyone with gnome-vfs against the patched version of eglibc currently
> in the book will have a broken gnome-vfs, so perhaps you'd like to look
> into this and probably tar a new version of eglibc
>
> R.
>
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I just pulled and updated eglibc and put it in the book. It has the 
fixes in it.