Hi,

I was trying to build glibc-2.5 on Linux x86, and although the build succeeds,
I do get quite a few errors when running 'make check'.

Binutils is either 2.16.94 or 2.17 -- no difference in the results.

I have been using glibc-2.3.3 for quite some time now, and that built and passed
'make check' without any errors (apart from the annexc 'error') with the same
configure invocation. Here is that configure setup:

../glibc/configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--disable-profile \
--enable-add-ons=nptl \
--with-tls \foo bar
--enable-oldest-abi=2.0 \
--enable-check-abi \
--enable-kernel=2.6.0 \
--with-headers=/usr/src/linux/include \
--without-gd \
--without-cvs

Using current kernel sanitized headers, specified with '--with-headers=
../linux-headers-2.6.18.1/include', doesn't really improve on the results of
'make check' either; in fact, I get one more Error that way.

Below is a short 'grep Error make.res' output, and I've added a slightly longer
'grep -B3 Error make.res' as an attachment.

I like to live dangerously, so I am at the brink of installing the compiled
glibc anyhow, and then prob. recompile, but before I do that it might be wise
to inquire here. So how serious are these errors, and where might the cause(s)
lie?

Thanks in advance.

Bauke Jan Douma


$> grep Error make.res
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_iswalnum.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_iswalpha.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_iswcntrl.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_iswctype.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_iswdigit.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_iswgraph.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_iswlower.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_iswprint.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_iswpunct.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_iswspace.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_iswupper.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_iswxdigit.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_mblen.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_mbrlen.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_mbrtowc.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_mbsrtowcs.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_mbstowcs.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_mbtowc.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_strcoll.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_strfmon.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_strxfrm.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_swscanf.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_towctrans.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_towlower.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_towupper.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcrtomb.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcscat.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcschr.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcscmp.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcscoll.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcscpy.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcscspn.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcslen.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcsncat.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcsncmp.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcsncpy.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcspbrk.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcsrtombs.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcsspn.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcsstr.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcstod.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcstok.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcstombs.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcswidth.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcsxfrm.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wctob.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wctomb.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wctrans.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wctype.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst_wcwidth.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst-mbswcs6.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst-xlocale1.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst-xlocale2.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/tst-strfmon1.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/localedata/sort-test.out] Error 1
make[1]: *** [localedata/tests] Error 2
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/intl/tst-codeset.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/intl/tst-gettext3.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/intl/tst-gettext4.out] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/intl/tst-gettext5.out] Error 1
make[1]: *** [intl/tests] Error 2
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/catgets/de/libc.cat] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/sw/glibc/build-2.5/catgets/test1.cat] Error 1
make[1]: *** [catgets/tests] Error 2