39421 – mkinitrd-3.5.7-r2's removal of dietlibc prevents nash from executing on the initrd

Bug 39421 - mkinitrd-3.5.7-r2's removal of dietlibc prevents nash from executing on the initrd

Summary: mkinitrd-3.5.7-r2's removal of dietlibc prevents nash from executing on the i...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2004-01-25 23:13 UTC by Andy Wang
Modified:	2006-08-09 02:17 UTC (History)
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Description Andy Wang 2004-01-25 23:13:50 UTC

The resolution for bug #35138 completely breaks mkinitrd.
The following is the block in the nash Makefile:
ifeq (i386, $(ARCH))
CC:=diet $(CC)
CFLAGS += -DUSE_DIET=1
else
STATIC=-static
endif

The fix for the above mentioned block removes the "diet" string from the CC
line.  However, this isn't enough.  For one, the "fix" does nothing to address
the fact that nash is linked dynamically by default on i386 systems.
With nash linked dynamically, and dietlibc support removed, mkinitrd doesn't
copy libc.so.6 into the initrd's /lib.  This prevents nash from executing and
pretty much makes the ramdisk useless.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-01-26 00:22:10 UTC

added diet back in ...

i guess we'll try to figure out why it breaks so horribly

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-08 23:20:54 UTC

*** Bug 143283 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***