Bug 830470 – app-emulation/open-vm-tools-11.3.5_p18557794 fails to compile: configure: error: "Failed to detect glibc version installed in the system."

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2022-01-02 21:21:59 UTC]

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: app-emulation/open-vm-tools-11.3.5_p18557794 fails to compile.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: tinderbox_musl)

NOTE:
This machine uses MUSL libc

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2022-01-02 21:22:01 UTC]

Created attachment 761111 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2022-01-02 21:22:01 UTC]

Created attachment 761112 [details]
1-config.log

1-config.log

[Comment 3 Sam James 2022-01-03 00:12:01 UTC]

I remember looking into this with a user in #gentoo months ago.

Alpine have a bunch of patches: https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/community/open-vm-tools?h=master.

[Comment 4 Larry the Git Cow 2022-01-03 22:06:03 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6005ae0548ab90c12aa6f74cd139bbbd47537e7d

commit 6005ae0548ab90c12aa6f74cd139bbbd47537e7d
Author:     Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2022-01-03 22:04:59 +0000
Commit:     Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2022-01-03 22:04:59 +0000

    app-emulation/open-vm-tools: disable glibc version check
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/830470
    Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>

 app-emulation/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-11.2.5_p17337674-r3.ebuild | 3 ++-
 app-emulation/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-11.3.5_p18557794.ebuild    | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)