[fedora-arm] F13 glibc patches for ARM?

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
>  On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:24:03 +0100, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>
>  wrote:
>> On 08/05/2011 09:07 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>> Thanks for pointing out, it does look like the same bug. So what's
>>> the
>>> fix/workaround?
>>>
>>> On 08/05/2011 08:59 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
>>>> On 5 Aug 2011 19:15, "Gordan Bobic" <gordan at bobich.net
>>>> <mailto:gordan at bobich.net>> wrote:
>>>>  >
>>>>  > How does one pick the correct "ports" part of glibc for the
>>>> correct core?
>>>>  >
>>>>  > I tried to build the RHEL6 glibc with the F13 ports tar ball,
>>>> but the
>>>>  > build eventually fails:
>>>>  >
>>>>
>>>> /usr/lib/gcc/armv5tel-redhat-linux-gnueabi/4.4.5/libgcc_eh.a(unwind-arm.o):
>>>>  > In function `__gnu_Unwind_Backtrace':
>>>>  > (.text+0x8b8): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'
>>>>  > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>>
>>>> Looks very much like the error in
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726495
>>
>> What is it linking against?  __stack_chk_guard should be defined in
>> libc.a.
>
>  OK, this is really starting to drive me nuts. I just set up a clean
>  container from the latest F13 ARM packages, and it looks like glibc
>  src.rpm from F13 ARM distribution doesn't build either - it fails in the
>  same place. What magic trick am I missing? How was glibc built
>  originally?

How much memory does your build host have, I seem to remember you need
at least a gig, and likely 2gb to build it (although I don't remember
exactly), do you have swap enabled?

Peter