[Clfs-support] Locale errors during SVN pure64 glibc check

[Joe Ciccone]

Mark McCorkell wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:18:45 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 06:54:09PM +0100, Mark McCorkell wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm in the process of doing a CLFS pure64 build as something to
>>> experiment with. During the glibc 'make check' inside a chroot jail
>>>       
> in
>   
>>> section 10.7 I'm getting 14 test fails in the localedata section. The
>>> only other fail is the expected annexc fail.
>>>
>>> Google returned a suggestion of running
>>>
>>> cp ../glibc-x.xx/iconvdata/gconv-modules iconvdata
>>>
>>> before doing 'make check' but there's no mention of this being needed
>>> in the current book. I haven't tried this yet.
>>>
>>>       
>>  I've seen those errors, probably since we upgraded glibc (but there
>> was a vast amount of churn since my previous build, so the cause could
>> be anywhere - at that time I didn't manage to get anything out of
>> google).  I've no idea what the fix is - please try copying
>> gconv-modules and see if it fixes the failures.
>>
>> ĸen
>>     
>
> Copying gconv-modules to the build dir just before running 'make check'
> eliminated all the locale test errors. My Linux knowledge isn't at the
> stage yet where I can decipher enough of the build scripts for glibc to
> figure out why this needed to be done (but trying was fun in a
> headache-inducing way). Hopefully it's just an issue with the tests and
> won't cause any problems to crop up with later compiles in the CLFS
> build.
>
>   
One would assume that if this is required to properly build/test locales
that the makefile with automatically cp or ln the file in question. I'll
see if I can figure out why there's a problem. I noticed these tests
failing on all archs for a long time. Never looked into it because the
locales always appeared to be fine.