Re: gcc-3.2 and glibc-2.3.1

[George Garvey]

   I've built with -march=i586 and -march=athlon, and ldconfig didn't
work. For -march=i686, pentium3, and athlon-xp, ldconfig worked. That's
from memory, I wasn't keeping notes.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:08:23PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi.  Using glibc-2.3 and gcc-3.2 and binutils-2.13.90.0.8 I compiled 
> glibc-2.3.1
> and now static programs that use functions like readdir don't work.  This 
> means
> ldconfig doesn't work.  ldconfig -v shows /lib and /usr/lib and the dirs that 
> I have in /etc/ld.so.conf, and ldconfig -p shows "0 libs found in cache
> `/etc/ld.so.cache'".
> 
> So a quick test program using readdir compiled with gcc -o tester tester.c 
> works
> correctly but gcc -static -o tester tester.c fails with value too large for
> defined data type.
> 
> I've had this problem with glibc-2.2.5 with every gcc >= 3.1 and with 
> glibc-2.3
> with gcc-3.2.  A few patches to gcc seem to have fixed the issue with 
> glibc-2.3
> but now the problem is back with glibc-2.3.1.
> 
> So far I've only found 1 other person that will admit to this problem and 
> we've
> been able to reproduce it a number of times.  But still there is no solution 
> to
> the problem.  Can anyone shed some light on this for me?
> 
> Thanks.
> Mike