Bug 289775 – sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r3 fails to configure with binutils 2.20

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexis Ballier 2009-10-19 18:23:00 UTC]

# FEATURES="-test" crossdev -t armv5te-softfloat-linux-gnueabi

checking for autoconf... autoconf
checking whether autoconf works... yes
configure: error:
*** These critical programs are missing or too old: as ld
*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.
 * ERROR: cross-armv5te-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r3 failed:
 *   failed to configure glibc
 *
 * Call stack:


I think this code from configure.ac is the culpit:
# Accept binutils 2.13 or newer.
AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(AS, $AS, --version,
                  [GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\)],
                  [2.1[3-9]*], AS=: critic_missing="$critic_missing as")
AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(LD, $LD, --version,
                  [GNU ld.* \([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\)],
                  [2.1[3-9]*], LD=: critic_missing="$critic_missing ld")

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-10-19 19:11:37 UTC]

We already have a patch for this problem in glibc-2.10.1-patches-3:

6705_all_binutils-2.20-compat.patch

[Comment 2 Franz Trischberger 2009-10-30 05:33:38 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> We already have a patch for this problem in glibc-2.10.1-patches-3:
> 
> 6705_all_binutils-2.20-compat.patch

I'm using binutils[gold], and the patch does not work...
I get this when checking for ld --version:
##
checking version of /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld... v. ?.??, bad
##

$ ld --version
GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.20) 1.9
...

[Comment 3 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2009-10-30 18:24:39 UTC]

Same here.

Franz, are you crosscompiling for ARM as well?

[Comment 4 Franz Trischberger 2009-10-30 19:46:49 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Same here.
> 
> Franz, are you crosscompiling for ARM as well?
> 

No, just compiling on/for my amd64 (local).

[Comment 5 Joerg Neikes 2009-11-04 13:06:12 UTC]

Created attachment 209203 [details, diff]
fixes 2.1[3-9]* as ld test for binutils 2.20

[Comment 6 Joerg Neikes 2009-11-04 13:32:03 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Created an attachment (id=209203) [details]
> fixes 2.1[3-9]* as ld test for binutils 2.20 
> 

To use it:

mkdir glibc-2.9-patches-6
cd glibc-2.9-patches-6
cat xfvj /usr/portage/distfiles/glibc-2.9-patches-6.tar.bz2
cp /usr/portage/distfiles/glibc-2.9-patches-6.tar.bz2 patches
tar cfvj /usr/portage/distfiles/glibc-2.9-patches-6.tar.bz2 *

change to dir with Mainfest file
/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise/cross-arm-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/glibc

remove the "DIST glibc-2.9-patches-6.tar.bz2" entry
and use "ebuild glibc-2.9_p20081201-r3.ebuild digest".

Now it worK's again.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2009-11-05 22:15:22 UTC]

*** Bug 291731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 SpanKY 2009-11-05 22:28:54 UTC]

added patch from 2.10 patchset to 2.9

[Comment 9 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-11-06 17:33:58 UTC]

*** Bug 292135 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 10 Paul Osmialowski 2010-07-23 15:56:48 UTC]

libpng upgraded in todays sync, during revdep-rebuild --library libpng12.so.0 glibc was added to the rebuild list. It can't be done due to the same error as yours:
checking whether autoconf works... yes
configure: error:
*** These critical programs are missing or too old: as ld
*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.
 * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 failed:
 *   failed to configure glibc

versions:

[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/binutils-2.20.1-r1  USE="nls -multislot -multitarget -test -vanilla" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2  USE="gd glibc-omitfp nls -debug (-hardened) (-multilib) -profile (-selinux) -vanilla" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/gcc-4.3.4  USE="altivec fortran gtk mudflap nls nptl objc objc++ objc-gc -bootstrap -build -doc (-fixed-point) -gcj (-hardened) (-libffi) (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) -nocxx -nopie -nossp -openmp -test -vanilla" 0 kB

[Comment 11 SpanKY 2010-07-25 18:07:15 UTC]

glibc-2.11.2 is stable now.  install that.