Bug 166782 – binutils fails to build for some targets (trad-core.c) with sanitized headers

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description SpanKY 2007-02-14 02:50:12 UTC]

bfd/trad-core.c relies on the NBPG define which is normally translated to PAGE_SIZE, but both of these defines are being killed off with sanitized headers

i'm not sure of the exact fix here so i've moved it upstream

we could cheat in the meantime and just do:
#ifndef NBPG
# define NBPG getsize()
#endif

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2007-07-15 06:32:06 UTC]

latest glibc should take care of this by defining NBPG in terms of getpagesize()

[Comment 2 Mark L Pappin 2007-10-08 12:10:06 UTC]

This doesn't help on Alpha:

# emerge -puvDN world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] sys-boot/aboot-1.0_pre20040408-r2 [1.0_pre20040408] 0 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/binutils-2.18  USE="multislot multitarget nls -test -vanilla" 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/pam-0.99.8.1-r1 [0.99.7.1] USE="cracklib%* nls (-audit) (-selinux) -vim-syntax" 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 [2.3.6-r5] USE="glibc-omitfp nls -debug% -glibc-compat20 (-hardened) (-multilib) -profile (-selinux) (-build%) (-erandom%) (-nptl%*) (-nptlonly%*)" 0 kB

(note that the 3 I'm having trouble with, that I continue to be told "glibc will fix it" [see bug 194241 and bug 194275], want to be built before glibc)

# emerge sys-libs/glibc
Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 to /

[time passes]

 * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 failed.


However, the following appears to have worked:

# emerge --unmerge =binutils-2.17
# emerge sys-libs/glibc
# emerge -uND world

So:
- profile 2006.1 culminates in a broken set of binutils/glibc/aboot/pam
- profile 2007.0 gets fixed versions
- but you need to leap the hurdle of a binutils/glibc argument