``` … make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.38-r9/work/glibc-2.38' locale-gen --inplace-glibc --jobs 6 --config /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.38-r9/image/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED --destdir /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.38-r9/image/ * Building locales in DESTDIR '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.38-r9/image/'\n/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.38-r9/image/usr/bin/localedef: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.38-r9/image/usr/bin/localedef) * Unable to parse the output of your localedef utility. * File a bug about this issue and include the output of 'localedef --help'. ``` From which the error is: ``` localedef: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.38-r9/image/usr/bin/localedef) ``` So far as I can tell: * Regardless of whether USE-flags contain 'compile-locales', run_locale_gen() is always called (but at a different phase of the build: src_install() vs. pkg_postinst(); * With glibc-2.37.x and prior, run_locale_gen() ran the separate `locale-gen` script which called the newly-compiled `"${ED}"/usr/bin/localedef` successfully (and this appears to have been the case since at least glibc-2.27.x?); * With glibc-2.38-r9, run_locale_gen() still runs the separate `locale-gen` script which calls the newly-built `"${ED}"/usr/bin/localedef` - but this apparently tries to run against the existing `/lib64/libc.so.6` (despite having `pushd`'d to the newly-built `libc.so.6`'s installation directory) and so fails since the new glibc version introduces a new GLIBC_2.38 version symbol; * If I update the ebuild to chroot to "${ED}" and then run `locale-gen`/`localedef` then `localedef` crashes with a stack-smashing exception; * The ebuild does not look for errors from running run_locale_gen() and so carries on regardless; * Building glibc-2.37-r9 on a system with glibc-2.37-r7 succeeds, whereas in the same situation glibc-2.38-r9 fails to run localedef (but succeeds overall, as this failure isn't caught). (Marking severity as 'major' since an element of the glibc build process is failing, even though this is hidden)
`emerge --info`: ``` Portage 3.0.57 (python 3.11.6-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib, gcc-13, glibc-2.37-r9, 6.6.8-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-6.6.8-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E3-1240L_v5_@_2.10GHz-with-glibc2.37 KiB Mem: 65752980 total, 2522356 free KiB Swap: 41943020 total, 41943008 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 22:39:12 +0000 sh sys-apps/busybox 1.36.1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.41 p2) 2.41.0 app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.5 app-shells/bash: 5.1_p16-r6 dev-build/make: 4.4.1-r1 dev-build/meson: 1.3.0-r2 dev-lang/perl: 5.38.2-r1 dev-lang/python: 3.11.6 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.14-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.48 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.38 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.71-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.16.5-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.41-r2 sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.5 sys-devel/gcc: 13.2.1_p20230826 sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.11 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.7-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 6.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.37-r9 Repositories: gentoo location: /var/db/repo/gentoo sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 volatile: True sync-rsync-extra-opts: sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: no sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 3 sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 ABI="amd64" ABI_X86="64" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="Apache-2.0 Artistic Artistic-2 BSD BSD-1 BSD-2 BSD-4 GPL-1+ GPL-2 GPL-2+ GPL-3 GPL-3+ ISC LGPL-2 LGPL-2+ LGPL-2.1 LGPL-2.1+ LGPL-3 LGPL-3+ MIT public-domain" ACCEPT_PROPERTIES="*" ACCEPT_RESTRICT="*" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2021" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_anon authn_dbm authn_file authz_dbm authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ARCH="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="no" BINPKG_COMPRESS="zstd" BINPKG_FORMAT="xpak" BINPKG_GPG_SIGNING_BASE_COMMAND="/usr/bin/flock /run/lock/portage-binpkg-gpg.lock /usr/bin/gpg --sign --armor [PORTAGE_CONFIG]" BINPKG_GPG_SIGNING_DIGEST="SHA512" BINPKG_GPG_VERIFY_BASE_COMMAND="/usr/bin/gpg --verify --batch --no-tty --no-auto-check-trustdb --status-fd 2 [PORTAGE_CONFIG] [SIGNATURE]" BINPKG_GPG_VERIFY_GPG_HOME="/etc/portage/gnupg" BOOTSTRAP_USE="unicode internal-glib pkg-config split-usr xml python_targets_python3_11 python_single_target_python3_11 multilib" BROOT="" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=skylake -mabm -pipe" CFLAGS_amd64="-m64" CFLAGS_x32="-mx32" CFLAGS_x86="-m32 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST_amd64="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST_x32="x86_64-pc-linux-gnux32" CHOST_x86="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLEAN_DELAY="5" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" COLLISION_IGNORE="/boot/dtbs/* /lib/modules/*" COLUMNS="165" COMMON_FLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/env.d /lib/rcscripts/addons /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/X11/xkb /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CPU_FLAGS_ARM="" CPU_FLAGS_PPC="" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt rdrand sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=skylake -mabm -pipe" DEFAULT_ABI="amd64" DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/dist" ELIBC="glibc" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask-write=y --backtrack=100 --binpkg-changed-deps=y --binpkg-respect-use=y --buildpkg=y --color=y --deep --ignore-soname-deps=n --keep-going=y --rebuild-if-new-slot=y --verbose=y --verbose-conflicts" EMERGE_WARNING_DELAY="10" ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_STATE_HOME" EPREFIX="" EROOT="/" ESYSROOT="/" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs binpkg-multi-instance buildpkg buildpkg-live clean-logs compress-build-logs compressdebug config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync mount-sandbox multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch parallel-install pid-sandbox pkgdir-index-trusted preserve-libs qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms split-elog split-log splitdebug strict unknown-features-filter unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync warn-on-large-env xattr" FETCHCOMMAND="wget -t 3 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}"" FETCHCOMMAND_RSYNC="rsync -LtvP "${URI}" "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}"" FETCHCOMMAND_SFTP="bash -c "x=\${2#sftp://} ; host=\${x%%/*} ; port=\${host##*:} ; host=\${host%:*} ; [[ \${host} = \${port} ]] && port= ; eval \"declare -a ssh_opts=(\${3})\" ; exec sftp \${port:+-P \${port}} \"\${ssh_opts[@]}\" \"\${host}:/\${x#*/}\" \"\$1\"" sftp "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}" "${PORTAGE_SSH_OPTS}"" FETCHCOMMAND_SSH="bash -c "x=\${2#ssh://} ; host=\${x%%/*} ; port=\${host##*:} ; host=\${host%:*} ; [[ \${host} = \${port} ]] && port= ; exec rsync --rsh=\"ssh \${port:+-p\${port}} \${3}\" -avP \"\${host}:/\${x#*/}\" \"\$1\"" rsync "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}" "${PORTAGE_SSH_OPTS}"" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GCC_SPECS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" GENTOO_PROFILE="default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib" GPG_VERIFY_GROUP_DROP="nogroup" GPG_VERIFY_USER_DROP="nobody" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 ntrip navcom oceanserver oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 tsip tripmate tnt ublox" GRUB_PLATFORMS="" HOME="/root" HOSTNAME="xxx" INFOPATH="/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/13/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.41/info:/usr/share/autoconf-2.71/info:/usr/share/automake-1.16.5/info:/usr/share/info" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" INSTALL_MASK="" IUSE_IMPLICIT="abi_x86_64 prefix prefix-guest prefix-stack" JOBS="6" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en en_GB" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb text" LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LDFLAGS_amd64="-m elf_x86_64" LDFLAGS_x32="-m elf32_x86_64" LDFLAGS_x86="-m elf_i386" LESS="-R -M --shift 5" LESSOPEN="|lesspipe %s" LEX="flex" LIBDIR_amd64="lib64" LIBDIR_x32="lib32" LIBDIR_x86="lib" LINES="46" LINGUAS="en en_GB en_US" LLVM_TARGETS="BPF X86" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="luajit" LUA_TARGETS="luajit" MAKEOPTS="-j6" MANPATH="/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/13/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.41/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man" MAXLOAD="7.00" MICROCODE_SIGNATURES="-S" MULTILIB_ABIS="amd64" MULTILIB_STRICT_DENY="64-bit.*shared object" MULTILIB_STRICT_DIRS="/lib32 /lib /usr/lib32 /usr/lib /usr/kde/*/lib32 /usr/kde/*/lib /usr/qt/*/lib32 /usr/qt/*/lib /usr/X11R6/lib32 /usr/X11R6/lib" MULTILIB_STRICT_EXEMPT="(perl5|gcc|binutils|eclipse-3|debug|portage|udev|systemd|clang|python-exec|llvm)" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" PEAR_CACHEDIR="/var/cache/pear" PEAR_DOWNLOADDIR="/var/tmp/pear" PEAR_TEMPDIR="/var/tmp" PHP_TARGETS="php8-1" PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/pkg/amd64" PORTAGE_ARCHLIST="alpha amd64 amd64-linux arm arm-linux arm64 arm64-linux arm64-macos hppa ia64 loong m68k mips ppc ppc-macos ppc64 ppc64-linux riscv riscv-linux s390 sparc x64-macos x64-solaris x86 x86-linux" PORTAGE_BIN_PATH="/usr/lib/portage/python3.11" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES="css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS="-9eT0" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_DEBUG="0" PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep" PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage@xxx" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="[portage] ebuild log for ${PACKAGE} on ${HOST}" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="xxx xxx" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="echo save mail_summary" PORTAGE_FETCH_CHECKSUM_TRY_MIRRORS="5" PORTAGE_FETCH_RESUME_MIN_SIZE="350K" PORTAGE_GID="250" PORTAGE_GPG_SIGNING_COMMAND="gpg --sign --digest-algo SHA256 --clearsign --yes --default-key "${PORTAGE_GPG_KEY}" --homedir "${PORTAGE_GPG_DIR}" "${FILE}"" PORTAGE_INST_GID="0" PORTAGE_INST_UID="0" PORTAGE_INTERNAL_CALLER="1" PORTAGE_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage" PORTAGE_LOGDIR_CLEAN="find "${PORTAGE_LOGDIR}" -type f ! -name "summary.log*" -mtime +7 -delete" PORTAGE_NICENESS="10" PORTAGE_OVERRIDE_EPREFIX="" PORTAGE_PYM_PATH="/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages" PORTAGE_PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="-1" PORTAGE_SYNC_STALE="30" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTAGE_TRUST_HELPER="/usr/bin/getuto" PORTAGE_VERBOSE="1" PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE="0700" PORTAGE_XATTR_EXCLUDE="btrfs.* security.evm security.ima security.selinux system.nfs4_acl user.apache_handler user.Beagle.* user.dublincore.* user.mime_encoding user.xdg.*" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres15" PROFILE_ONLY_VARIABLES="ARCH ELIBC IUSE_IMPLICIT KERNEL USE_EXPAND_IMPLICIT USE_EXPAND_UNPREFIXED USE_EXPAND_VALUES_ARCH USE_EXPAND_VALUES_ELIBC USE_EXPAND_VALUES_KERNEL" PWD="/" PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE="1" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_11" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11" RESUMECOMMAND="wget -c -t 3 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}"" RESUMECOMMAND_RSYNC="rsync -LtvP "${URI}" "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}"" RESUMECOMMAND_SSH="bash -c "x=\${2#ssh://} ; host=\${x%%/*} ; port=\${host##*:} ; host=\${host%:*} ; [[ \${host} = \${port} ]] && port= ; exec rsync --rsh=\"ssh \${port:+-p\${port}} \${3}\" -avP \"\${host}:/\${x#*/}\" \"\$1\"" rsync "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}" "${PORTAGE_SSH_OPTS}"" ROOT="/" ROOTPATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin" RPMDIR="/var/cache/portage/rpm" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby31" SKIP_KERNEL_CHECK="1" SYMLINK_LIB="no" SYSROOT="/" TERM="screen-256color" TWISTED_DISABLE_WRITING_OF_PLUGIN_CACHE="1" UNINSTALL_IGNORE="/boot/dtbs/* /lib/modules/* /var/run /var/lock" USE="acl acpi adns aio amd64 ao asm audit bash-completion bzip2 caps chroot cli crypt curl cxx dri encode expat fam ffmpeg fftw filecaps flac ftp gd gdbm gif gmp iconv icu id3tag idn inotify io-uring iodbc ipv6 ithreads javascript jemalloc jpeg jpeg2k json ladspa lame libatomic libffi libidn2 libsamplerate libtirpc libwww lighttpd lto lz4 lzma lzo mad mariadb mbox mdev memcached mmap mp3 mpfr mysql mysqli ncurses network nfs nls nntp nptl odbc ogg openmp openssl pam pcre perl pgo php png python readline rpc sctp seccomp sep-usr server slp smtp sndfile snmp speex spell split-usr sql sqlite ssl svg syslog test-rust theora threads tiff unicode unwind urandom uuid vim-syntax vorbis wavpack x264 xattr xinetd xml xs xvid xxhash yaml zlib zstd" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2021" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_anon authn_dbm authn_file authz_dbm authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt rdrand sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 ntrip navcom oceanserver oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 tsip tripmate tnt ublox" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en en_GB" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb text" LLVM_TARGETS="BPF X86" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="luajit" LUA_TARGETS="luajit" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php8-1" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres15" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_11" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby31" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel nouveau radeon radeonsi vesa dummy matrox" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tarpit sysrq proto logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USERLAND="GNU" USE_EXPAND="ABI_MIPS ABI_S390 ABI_X86 ADA_TARGET ALSA_CARDS AMDGPU_TARGETS APACHE2_MODULES APACHE2_MPMS CALLIGRA_FEATURES CAMERAS COLLECTD_PLUGINS CPU_FLAGS_ARM CPU_FLAGS_PPC CPU_FLAGS_X86 CURL_SSL ELIBC FFTOOLS GPSD_PROTOCOLS GRUB_PLATFORMS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL L10N LCD_DEVICES LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS LLVM_TARGETS LUA_SINGLE_TARGET LUA_TARGETS MONKEYD_PLUGINS NGINX_MODULES_HTTP NGINX_MODULES_MAIL NGINX_MODULES_STREAM OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION OPENMPI_FABRICS OPENMPI_OFED_FEATURES OPENMPI_RM PHP_TARGETS POSTGRES_TARGETS PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET PYTHON_TARGETS QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS QEMU_USER_TARGETS RUBY_TARGETS SANE_BACKENDS UWSGI_PLUGINS VIDEO_CARDS VOICEMAIL_STORAGE XTABLES_ADDONS" USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="ABI_MIPS ABI_S390 ABI_X86 CPU_FLAGS_ARM CPU_FLAGS_PPC ELIBC KERNEL" USE_EXPAND_IMPLICIT="ARCH ELIBC KERNEL" USE_EXPAND_UNPREFIXED="ARCH" USE_EXPAND_VALUES_ARCH="alpha amd64 amd64-linux arm arm64 arm64-macos hppa ia64 loong m68k mips ppc ppc64 ppc64-linux ppc-macos riscv s390 sparc x64-macos x64-solaris x86 x86-linux" USE_EXPAND_VALUES_ELIBC="bionic Darwin glibc mingw musl SunOS" USE_EXPAND_VALUES_KERNEL="Darwin linux SunOS" USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal:features:repo:env.d" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel nouveau radeon radeonsi vesa dummy matrox" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tarpit sysrq proto logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" ac_cv_c_undeclared_builtin_options="none needed" enable_year2038="no" gl_cv_compiler_check_decl_option="-Werror=implicit-function-declaration" ```
As anticipated, if glibc-2.38 is built on a system already running glibc-2.38, then `localedef` runs correctly.
