[Clfs-support] version-check.sh: /lib/libc.so.6: not found

[Andrew Bradford]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012, at 07:52 PM, Ron McDowell wrote:
> Thanks to new hardware here, I'm building up a new build box based on 
> Linux Mint 13 x86_64.  Everything in version_check.sh is found, except 
> for /lib/libc.so.6.  Closest thing I've found to it is 
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 ... will that do?  Do I need a symlink 
> to /lib?

I had opened a ticket [1] in trac for this for the embedded book. 
Apparently it applies to others, too.

[1]: http://trac.cross-lfs.org/ticket/762

The change in moving libc.so from /lib to /lib/$ARCH is due to multiarch
changes and their friends.  In order to better support having libs for
more than one arch installed at any one time, multiarch uses the triplet
within /lib.  Ubuntu (and derivatives) started the multiarch migration
starting with 11.10, 12.04 implements it more fully.  Debian Wheezy will
have a similar state of multiarch as did Ubuntu 11.10, Debian Jessie
will be (probably) fully multiarch.

The ticket gives some guidance on how the version check script should
change.  Basically, test what libc.so is being used by bash.  Probably
should update it by using `which bash` to make sure the currently chosen
bash is the one checked, but that's trivial.

-Andrew