Bug 39421

Summary:	mkinitrd-3.5.7-r2's removal of dietlibc prevents nash from executing on the initrd
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andy Wang <dopey>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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. ***