Hints and tips for building from srcrpms

[G. Roderick Singleton]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 15:08 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> > G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> > 
> >> I said in a earlier message that I was attempting to build gcc and
> >> family so that tbird and firefox will install under 7.3. 
> > 
> > 
> > Here's something to start from, a (backport) of rh90's gcc-3.2.2 for rh73:
> > http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/fedora/all/SRPMS/gcc-3.2.2-5.0.src.rpm
> 
> Make that:
> http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/fedora/all/SRPMS.stable/gcc-3.2.2-5.0.src.rpm
> (That's what I get for not testing the links...)
> 

Figured that one out but am confused about the patch. Have picked up
glibc-2.2.5-44.legacy.3.src.rpm and have tried rpmbuild --recompile !$
but got a dependency I was not expecting:
        # rpmbuild --recompile glibc-2.2.5-44.legacy.3.src.rpm
        Installing glibc-2.2.5-44.legacy.3.src.rpm
        error: failed build dependencies:
                libelf >= 0.7.0-2 is needed by glibc-2.2.5-44.legacy.3
Had to apt-get it.

Re-compiling produced:

        In file included from ../math/math.h:350,
                         from ../include/math.h:3,
                         from ../sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/strtold.c:19:
        ../sysdeps/i386/fpu/bits/mathinline.h: In function `__sgnl':
        ../sysdeps/i386/fpu/bits/mathinline.h:291: Internal error:
        Segmentation fault.
        Please submit a full bug report.
        See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.
        make[2]: *** [/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.2.5/build-i386-
        linux/stdlib/strtold.op] Error 1
        make[2]: Leaving directory
        `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.2.5/stdlib'
        make[1]: *** [stdlib/subdir_lib] Error 2
        make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.2.5'
        make: *** [all] Error 2
        error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.52394 (%build)

So I guess the next question is what next?
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G. Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
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