Re: libstdc++ link errors in support/links-dso-program

[Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>]

On Wed, 2024-04-10 at 15:50 +0300, Горбешко Богдан via Libc-help wrote:
> On 10/04/2024 15:03, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > * Горбешко Богдан:
> > 
> > > We already have a solution to build this in Docker, though the
> > > target
> > > test VPS is tight on resources and I wouldn't really like to mess
> > > with
> > > Docker there.
> > You don't have to build on the target system directly, you just
> > need to
> > use a container/chroot environment that matches the target
> > distribution
> > version.  These containers tend to be fairly lightweight, requiring
> > less
> > space and resources than a full glibc build.
> 
> An unpacked binary Glibc package takes just 12 MB. A minimal Debian 
> image is orders of magnitude larger.
> 
> And the primary problem with Docker is that continuous rebuilds
> occupy 
> the disk space rapidly fast, as it normally preserves old builds,
> which 
> is not a case with builds on a host system. 

I am confused. Docker may or may not preserve something depending on
how you use it. You're saying compilation on the host system is not
preserved, which confuses me even further because why would it not.
Unless you run `make clean && make distclean` sure you have all
artifacts in place.

Anyway. As far as I understand what you're saying you don't want Docker
to preserve a build. I presume it's being "preserved" because you're
building on a host directory that is mount-bound via `-v` option (there
isn't many other ways you'd be getting that. Saving container state is
another one but why would you do that if you don't want the state to be
saved. So it is likely not that). You can solve that by using mount-
bind in such way so that any changes the container does to the mound-
bind will only be visible inside the container. Idk of any ways to do
that in the vanilla Docker, but in Podman it's supported by `:O`
option, i.e. `-v my_host_dir:/mnt:O`.