Bug 258606 – sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1: Cannot build kernel after upgrading glibc

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Kris Wong 2009-02-11 14:34:03 UTC]

After upgrading my glibc, I can no longer rebuild my kernel or build the proprietary ATI drivers (x11-drivers/ati-drivers). I am receiving errors whenever a file from asm-generic is included. The system cannot find the file. Example:

include/asm/errno.h:1:31: error: asm-generic/errno.h: No such file or directory

I have tried using several versions of the sys-kernel/linux-headers package, re-emerging glibc after each change.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1
2. cd /usr/src/linux
3. make clean && make

Actual Results:  
I received several error messages along the lines of the one in the description.

Expected Results:  
It should have built successfully.

Portage 2.2_rc23 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 i686)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_D_CPU_3.20GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="   "
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdread encode esd evo expat fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk hal iconv innodb ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oracle pam pcre pdf perl php png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sqlite3 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis webkit win32codecs x86 xcb xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) 2009-02-12 00:03:13 UTC]

Please try, with fresh kernel sources, to recompile your kernel, eselect kernel set <kernel> and retry. This sounds like weirdish kernel-sources issue. Re-open if appropriate.

[Comment 2 Kris Wong 2009-02-12 14:54:52 UTC]

This did fix my issue. I suppose this was a problem with trying to rebuild a kernel previously built with prior version of glibc. If this is the case, some discussion on this topic in the emerge notes for the glibc package would be helpful.