Re: Build hangs on stdio-common for glibc-2.30-67-g4748829f86a458b76642f3e98b1d80f7b868e427

[Boran Car <boran.car@gmail.com>]

I don't think so, Googling has been quite difficult - lead me to a
Stack Overflow question that prompted me to reach out to the mailing
list where I found a mention of a GitHub issue. I can confirm that it
just works (tm) with an earlier Make version, v4.2, and I have a
simple Nix shell derivation to prove it (yeah, I know Nix + Buildroot,
go figure...).

shell.nix:
```
let pkgs = import  { };
in pkgs.mkShell {
    hardeningDisable = [ "all" ];
    nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.gcc7 pkgs.gnumake42 ];

    CC="${pkgs.gcc7}/bin/gcc";
    CXX="${pkgs.gcc7}/bin/g++";
}
```

There's definitely interest in fixing this, at least from my side, but
I do need handholding through the build-system. If a Makefile can be
back-ported, even better. There's still interest in pre 2.31 glibcs
out there, and Buildroot and crosstools-NG were definitely not made to
build their own Make as part of the process.

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 1:43 PM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> * Chris Packham via Libc-help:
>
> >> My questions are:
> >> - Are there any pointers where I should go looking for what's the
> >> cause of the re-executions and how to prevent them?
> >> - Is there anything I can use from subsequent glibc Makefiles? Was an
> >> issue discovered with the target computation?
> >>
> >
> > There is a pretty good explanation of the problem and some workarounds at
> > https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng/issues/1932#issuecomment-1528139734
> >
> > Using a newer glibc is probably the best solution. If you really need to
> > use that specific version then downgrading your local version of make is
> > another option.
>
> Has this reported anywhere as a make or glibc issue?  I don't
> immediately recall how we fixed this in glibc 2.31.
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
>