Bugzilla Bug 227275

Not a big issue, though, since 2.7 is still unkeyworded.

I'll attach a log

Created an attachment (id=156963) [edit]
build.log.bz

The important part:

alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc   -shared -static-libgcc -Wl,-O1  -Wl,-z,defs
-Wl,-dynamic-linker=/lib/ld-linux.so.2 
-B/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/csu/
  -Wl,-soname=libmemusage.so -Wl,-z,combreloc -Wl,-z,relro
-Wl,--hash-style=both 
-L/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl
-L/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/math
-L/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/elf
-L/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/dlfcn
-L/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/nss
-L/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/nis
-L/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/rt
-L/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/resolv
-L/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/crypt
-L/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/nptl
-Wl,-rpath-link=/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/math:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/elf:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/dlfcn:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/nss:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/nis:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/rt:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/resolv:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/crypt:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/nptl
-o
/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/malloc/libmemusage.so
-T
/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/shlib.lds
/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/csu/abi-note.o
-Wl,--whole-archive
/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/malloc/libmemusage_pic.a
-Wl,--no-whole-archive
/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/elf/interp.os
/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/dlfcn/libdl.so
/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/elf/ld.so
/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/malloc/libmemusage_pic.a(memusage.os):
In function `me':
(.text+0xcd8): undefined reference to `creat64'
/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/malloc/libmemusage_pic.a(memusage.os):
In function `me':
(.text+0xce4): undefined reference to `creat64'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: ***
[/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/malloc/libmemusage.so]
Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/glibc-2.8-20080602/malloc'
make[1]: *** [malloc/others] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/work/glibc-2.8-20080602'
make: *** [all] Error 2

glibc-2.8 has introduced a creat64.c file in
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64/ which is a stub ... previously, the
creat64 symbol came from io/creat64.c

that implies the alpha port is supposed to be doing something special with
creat64 that other 64-bit arches are doing ...

the difference is that on alpha, io/creat.c is used where as on x86-64, the
creat.o is generated on the fly using the syscall.list ... dont know why the
syscall.list isnt being used for alpha though ...

alpha lacks a creat() syscall ... glibc assumes that all 64bit ports do

for an in-depth explanation, see upstream URL ... i think a workaround is to
update sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64/creat64.c:
#include <sysdep.h>
#ifndef __NR_creat
#include "../../../../../io/creat64.c"
#endif

there was another (unrelated) alpha problem, but ive fixed them both and
glibc-2.8 seems to be working OK for me on alpha.

the patches are in cvs now ...

http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.8/6017_all_alpha-glibc-2.8-creat.patch?rev=1.1
http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.8/6018_all_alpha-glibc-2.8-cache-shape.patch?rev=1.1